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Nanda Reddy

Biography

Nanda Reddy

Nanda Reddy is a Guyanese-American writer, former teacher and part of an enormous extended family who mostly live in Florida --- her father is one of seventeen siblings; her mom is one of nine; and she has over fifty first cousins. In her teaching days, she co-wrote 180 DAYS TO SUCCESSFUL WRITERS, a daily writing curriculum best suited for elementary classrooms. She loves visiting off-the-grid places (national parks!) with her husband and two teenage boys and she sometimes messes around with watercolors to clear her mind. The internet doesn’t think she exists because, being easily distracted, she turned it off to write; she’s trying to change that because she’s thrilled to debut A GIRL WITHIN A GIRL WITHIN A GIRL.

Nanda Reddy

Books by Nanda Reddy

A Girl Within a Girl Within a Girl
by Nanda Reddy - Fiction, Women's Fiction

On an ordinary day in an upscale Atlanta suburb, Maya is making breakfast for her two sons, when her husband drops a red-and-blue striped envelope on the counter and asks a devastating question: Who is Sunny? Maya is sent reeling back to her childhood in Guyana --- a time when Sunny was her only name. Unbeknownst to her husband, Maya is not who she claims to be. The letter, from her long-lost sister Roshi, now threatens to expose her true identity. As she frantically weighs the impact of the truth on her future, Maya relives the details of her childhood journey to America from Guyana --- and the traumatic events that forced her to leave her past behind. Through the eyes of Maya’s innocent and scared younger self, we discover the power of hope, empathy and the possibility of beginning again.