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Kirthana Ramisetti

Biography

Kirthana Ramisetti

Kirthana Ramisetti is the author of DAVA SHASTRI'S LAST DAY, a "Good Morning America" Book Club selection that is in development as a television series for Max, and ADVIKA AND THE HOLLYWOOD WIVES, a Book of the Month pick and named one of the Best Books of April by Apple Books. She has had her work published in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Salon and elsewhere, and earned her MFA in creative writing from Emerson College.

Books by Kirthana Ramisetti

by Kirthana Ramisetti - Fiction

Advika Srinivasan considers herself a failed screenwriter. To pay the bills and keep her mind off of the recent death of her twin sister, she’s taken to bartending A-list events, including the 2015 Governors Ball, the official afterparty of the Oscars. There, she meets legendary film producer Julian Zelding. Despite their 41-year age difference, Advika falls helplessly under his spell, and their evening flirtation ignites into a whirlwind courtship and elopement. A month into their marriage, Julian’s first wife dies, and a tabloid reports a shocking stipulation in her will. A single film reel and $1,000,000 will be bequeathed to “Julian’s latest child bride” on one condition: Advika must divorce him first. Shaken out of her love fog, Advika decides to investigate him through the eyes and experiences of his exes.

by Kirthana Ramisetti - Fiction, Women's Fiction

Dava Shastri has always lived with her sterling reputation in mind. However, a brain cancer diagnosis at the age of 70 changes everything, and Dava decides to take her death into her own hands. Summoning her four adult children to her private island, she discloses shocking news: in addition to having a terminal illness, she has arranged for the news of her death to break early, so she can read her obituaries. Dava expects to read articles lauding her philanthropic work. Instead, her "death" reveals two devastating secrets, truths she thought she had buried forever. In the time she has left, Dava must come to terms with the decisions that have led to this moment --- and make peace with those closest to her before it's too late.