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Author Talk & Signing with Alka Joshi

Six Days in Bombay, Her New Novel

Join New York Times-bestselling author Alka Joshi for a presentation on the history that inspired her latest novel, Six Days in Bombay, out April 15, 2025.

Alka Joshi is the internationally bestselling author of the Jaipur Trilogy: The Henna Artist, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur and The Perfumist of Paris.

Her fourth release (4/15/2025), Six Days in Bombay, is a sweeping travelogue spanning a young women’s journey from 1937 India to a turbulent Europe as she comes into her own. It’s Alka’s first standalone novel, and will be followed by a fifth in 2026.

Her debut novel, The Henna Artist, immediately became a New York Times Bestseller, a Reese Witherspoon Bookclub Pick, an LA Times Bestseller, a Toronto Star Bestseller, an Indie Bookstores Bestseller, a Cosmopolitan Best Audiobook, and an Amazon and Goodreads favorite. It was also longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, has been translated into 29 languages, and is currently in development as an episodic series.

In 2023, Forbes selected Alka as one of 50 Women Over 50 who are shattering age and gender norms.

Alka was born in India and came to the U.S. with her family at the age of nine. She has a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from California College of Arts.

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