Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is the acclaimed author of seventeen novels, which include The Mistress of Spices and ,most recently , One Amazing Thing. Her books have been translated into twenty - nine languages and two have been made into films. Divakaruni was born in Kolkata and moved to the United States for her graduate studies. She currently lives in Houston, Texas.
Troubled by the silence that surrounds her parents' death, seventeen-year-old Korobi Roy clings to her only inheritance from them: the unfinished love note she found
hidden in her mother's book of poetry. But when her grandfather dies, the young woman discovers a dark secret
which will finally explain her past.
