Ivonne Kronenberg
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Alka Joshi:
I absolutely loved reading this (as I did your other books). I also love that you give some insight at the end. So I had to look up what a perfume organ looked like and found out that LilaNur parfums came out with a discovery set called The Perfumist of Paris. I can't order it, since I'm not in the US but it made the book more than come alive for me. Thank you for writing this for us?
Alka Joshi
Dear Ivonne,
And I loved hearing from you! Thanks for writing. I so enjoyed the research for The Perfumist of Paris, traveling to NYC, Paris, Grasse and Lisbon. Everywhere, the boutique perfumeries are booming. And more and more women are creating their own lines, which is HUGE considering that in Radha’s time, 1974, very few women went out on their own. I hope you’ll keep you eye out for the next novel loosely based on the Indian Freida Kahlo, Amrita Sher-Gil. Until then, xoxoxo
And I loved hearing from you! Thanks for writing. I so enjoyed the research for The Perfumist of Paris, traveling to NYC, Paris, Grasse and Lisbon. Everywhere, the boutique perfumeries are booming. And more and more women are creating their own lines, which is HUGE considering that in Radha’s time, 1974, very few women went out on their own. I hope you’ll keep you eye out for the next novel loosely based on the Indian Freida Kahlo, Amrita Sher-Gil. Until then, xoxoxo
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Karen Klink
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Alka Joshi:
Can you truly understand what it is like for a woman growing up in India when you left at such an early age? One Indian reviewer said you wrote for white women, not for what it was like for true Indian women. "I found the narrator, Lakshmi Shastri, a henna artist who reads Dickens and Jane Austen, rather unbelievable. Her explanations on what Indians do and don’t do seem written for that white woman audience."
Cathryn Wellner
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Alka Joshi:
I just reviewed your debut novel and want to thank you. I devour books like popcorn. Many of them are excellent. Others are just OK. Rarely do I come to the end of the book and sigh with regret that I must leave the characters I have come to love. Thank you for an extraordinary book that left me wanting more. What is your next book?
Sunita Mathur
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Alka Joshi:
Hi Alka! I was delighted to read The Henna Artist a few days ago, read it cover to cover in one day. It was poignant and stirred up many memories of Jaipur life where I'm originally from. You've drawn the characters so well that I felt that I personally knew all the characters in the book. I'm eagerly looking forward to reading the sequel now; will your other 2 books also portray Indian life?
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