A Girl Within A Girl Within A Girl
A female takes on a chain of identities to live on, shrouding herself in layer upon layer of secrets, until one morning years later while she is pressured to reckon together with her beyond.
On an normal day in an upscale Atlanta suburb, Maya is making breakfast for her sons, when her husband drops a red-and-blue striped envelope on the counter and asks a devastating Who is Sunny?Maya is despatched reeling again to her adolescence in Guyana—a time while Sunny become her best call.
Unbeknownst to her husband, Maya isn’t who she claims to be.
The letter, from her long-lost sister Roshi, now threatens to reveal her genuine identity and shatter the apparently ideal life Maya worked so hard to build.
As she frantically weighs the impact of the truth on her destiny, Maya relives the harrowing details of her past—her journey to America on the “go into reverse,” the shock of being brought into the arms of an abusive family while being severed from her personal, and her many evolutions of self as she struggles to find a path ahead towards all odds.
Steeped in sensory element, this striking debut transports the reader from the sugar cane fields of Guyana to the world of immigrant worker’s in Miami to the prosperous suburbs of Atlanta. Nanda Reddy takes us on a wrenching journey of assimilation, survival, and reinvention that explores the very assemble of identification—all the at the same time as underscoring the power of selected family, love, and the resilience of the human spirit.