Thanks to the American Library at the US Embassy in New Delhi, India, for featuring Letter to My Daughter as one of their “Check It Out” picks.
Don’t know if the American Library knows it or not, but I lived in India from 2005-2007.
Here’s their summary and link:
Letter to My Daughter: A Novel
By George Bishop, Ballantine Books, ©2010
Elizabeth runs away from home on the eve of her 15th birthday after being slapped by her mother, Laura Jenkins, during an argument. While the parents are waiting for news of their daughter’s whereabouts, Laura decides to write a letter to her daughter telling her the truth about how a girl grows up. She recounts her own forbidden love with a high school senior against her intolerant parents that resulted in her transfer to a Catholic girls’ school. Find out what else the mother of a missing daughter writes in a book-length letter, written in a single night.
And here I am visiting a government college in, I believe, Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, India:
