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Signature Series: Alka Joshi

The Author of 'The Henna Artist' and 'Six Days in Bombay'

2025-11-07 19:00:00 2025-11-07 20:00:00 America/New_York Signature Series: Alka Joshi Alka Joshi discusses her immigrant story and how it influenced her life's second act of becoming a bestselling author in her sixties and her new book, 'Six Days in Bombay.' Carrico/Fort Thomas Branch - Fort Thomas Conference Room, Fort Thomas Meeting Room, Fort Thomas Study Room (No Window), Fort Thomas Study Room (Window)

Friday, November 07
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-11-07 19:00:00 2025-11-07 20:00:00 America/New_York Signature Series: Alka Joshi Alka Joshi discusses her immigrant story and how it influenced her life's second act of becoming a bestselling author in her sixties and her new book, 'Six Days in Bombay.' Carrico/Fort Thomas Branch - Fort Thomas Conference Room, Fort Thomas Meeting Room, Fort Thomas Study Room (No Window), Fort Thomas Study Room (Window)

Carrico/Fort Thomas Branch

Fort Thomas Conference Room, Fort Thomas Meeting Room, Fort Thomas Study Room (No Window), Fort Thomas Study Room (Window)

Alka Joshi discusses her immigrant story and how it influenced her life's second act of becoming a bestselling author in her sixties and her new book, 'Six Days in Bombay.'

Join us for this Signature Series event. After Alka Joshi's talk, stay for a brief reception to meet the author and get her autograph. Don't have a copy of her book? Roebling Books will be on site selling them!

About the Author

Joshi is the internationally bestselling author of the Jaipur TrilogyThe Henna Artist, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur and The Perfumist of Paris. Her debut novel, The Henna Artist, immediately became a New York Times bestseller and a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick. It has been translated into 28 languages and is currently in development at Netflix as an episodic series. Her most recent book, Six Days in Bombay, is a sweeping novel of identity and self-discovery that takes readers from Bombay to Prague, Florence, Paris and London, to uncover the mystery behind a famous painter’s death.

Born in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India, Alka Joshi has lived in the United States since the age of nine. Joshi graduated with a BA from Stanford University and worked at advertising and public relations companies before starting her own marketing consultancy. In 2011, she obtained her MFA in Creative Writing from the California College of Arts in San Francisco, Calif. She lives on the Monterey Peninsula with her husband and Coco, the misbehaving pup.

Thank you to the Friends of the Campbell County Public Library for their continued support of our Signature Series programs.

AGE GROUP: | Adult |

EVENT TYPE: | History | Book Clubs |

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