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An eye-opening and courageous memoir that explores what learning a new language can teach us about distant worlds and, ultimately, ourselves. After miraculously surviving a serious illness, Katherine Rich found herself at an impasse in her career as a magazine editor. She spontaneously accepted a freelance writing assignment to go to India, where she found herself thunderstruck by the place and the language, and before she knew it she was on her way to Udaipur, a city in the northwestern state of Rajasthan, in order to learn Hindi. Rich documents her experiences - ranging from the bizarre to the frightening to the unexpectedly exhilarating - using Hindi as the lens through which she is given a new perspective not only on India, but on the radical way the country and the language itself were changing her.
About the Author
KATHERINE RUSSELL RICH was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. She's the author of The Red Devil and Dreaming in Hindi and has written for the New York Times, the Sunday Times Magazine, the Washington Post, Slate, and O, the Oprah Magazine, among other places. She's received a New York Foundation for the Arts Award, and fellowships at the New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writer, MacDowell and the Corporation of Yaddo. She teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA.website: www.katherinerussellrich.com
