Braided Tongue

Fiction. Asian American Studies. "A high-speed novel as brilliantly colored as a Mexican tapestry"--Meena Alexander. Plagued by vague but painful memories of her renegade father and her childhood in Mexico, the novel's main characer--Katy Cooper--is a painter of Parsi Zoroastrian ancestry living in Half Moon Bay, California, when her strange adventure of self-discovery begins. At the center of her mystery is an elderly ghost with a scar on her neck, and a black butterfly who has followed Katy all her life. Editor of the anthology Encounters: People of Asian Descent in the Americas (1999), Roshni Rustomji was born in Mumbai, India and has lived, studied and worked in India, Pakistan, Lebanon, the United States and Mexico.Rustomji, Roshni is the author of 'Braided Tongue' with ISBN 9781894770071 and ISBN 1894770072.