After her mother’s death crossing the border from Pakistan to India during Partition, baby Pinky was taken in by her grandmother, Maji, the matriarch of the powerful Mittal family. Now thirteen years old, Pinky lives with her grandmother and her uncle’s family in a bungalow on the Malabar Heights in Bombay. While she has never really been accepted by her uncle’s family, she has always had Maji’s love.

One day, as monsoons engulf the city, Pinky opens a mysteriously bolted door, unleashing the ghosts of an infant who drowned shortly before Pinky’s arrival and of the nursemaid who cared for the child. Three generations of the Mittal family must struggle to come to terms with their secrets amidst hidden shame, forbidden love, and a call for absolute sacrifice.

Los Angeles-based writer Shilpa Agarwal has provided an intriguing glimpse into her upcoming supernatural epic HAUNTING BOMBAY (April 2009 US, Soho Press) with a book trailer video directed by actor/director Shishir Kurup.

Reviews of the novel, an excerpt and chance to win a signed copy are available at the book’s website Haunting Bombay

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