The Direction of the Wind by Mansi Shah
Fiction / Historical Fiction
320 pages
Out as of February 1, 2023

Thanks to @mansishahwrites @amazonpublishing @letstalkbookspromo for the gifted copy of this book!

“The direction of the wind cannot be changed, but we can change the direction of our sails.”

Nita Shah has the perfect life in Ahmedabad, but feels like she’s living a lie. She decides to leave her family and head to Paris to be an artist, where she struggles more than she anticipates. Years later, her daughter, Sophie, discovers that her mother didn’t die when she was six - she decided to leave their family. As she goes on a search for her mother, we get flashbacks to Nita’s journey of creativity, love, lust, and drug addiction in Paris. Sophie doesn’t discover what she expects, but learns a lot about her family history, about the destruction a person’s actions can have on a family, and about herself.

Read if you like:
- multi-generational stories
- messy family drama
- dual timelines
- a sad and hopeful storyline