LOUISIANA CATCH

Ahana a wealthy thirty-three-year-old New Delhi woman flees the pain of her mothers death and her dark past by accepting a huge project in New Orleans where shell coordinate an annual conference to raise awareness of violence against women. Her half-Indian half-Irish colleague and public relations guru Rohan Brady who helps Ahana develop her online presence offends her prim sensibilities with his raunchy humour. She is convinced that hes a womanizer. Meanwhile she seeks relief from her pain in an online support group where she makes a good friend: the mercurial Jay Dubois who is also grieving the loss of his mother. Louisiana Catch is an emotionally immersive novel about identity shame and who we project ourselves to be in the world. Its a book about Ahanas unreliable instincts and her ongoing battle to determine whom to place her trust in as she Rohan and Jay shed layers of their identities.