A YEAR OF WEDNESDAYS
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Author: Sonia Bahl, Publisher- Finger Print
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YEAR OF WEDNESDAYS
Author:
Sonia Bahl, Publisher- Finger Print, Price: INR 299/-, pp – 280, PB
A FLIGHT FROM NEW DELHI TO NEW YORK. Two strangers,
Seat 7A and Seat 7B, who have nothing in common. Absolutely nothing. Except
they are both hoping the seat next to theirs remains empty. It doesn’t.
Mid-flight turbulence and infant incontinence forces them to interact—the cool
Wall Street guy and the
mom-with-thedrool-stained-sweater-and-ordinary-aspirations. Blistering wit,
opposing views, and some unexpectedly poignant admissions keep them addictively
engaged and hopelessly sleep deprived through the fifteen-hour journey. Touch
down . . . and they leave the cabin without a backward glance, jumping right
back into their dramatically different lives. Never to meet again. But somehow
they continue to travel together— interlocked forever through an inexplicable
connectedness. Can one meeting change everything forever? The Japanese have a
term for it: Ichi-go ichi-e. One time, one encounter, lasts a lifetime.
Born and raised in Kolkata, Sonia has lived and worked in Chennai, Mumbai, Delhi, Jakarta, Miami, Brussels, Johannesburg, and Singapore. With home being everywhere and nowhere, her belief in the power of the moment became a religion. An affirmation that unexpected and undeniable human connections are everything. Meanwhile, on the work front, she spent a huge chunk of her life, her days, and sleepless nights, in advertising—writing ads for all things from coffee and cars to condoms and candy—while dreaming of morphing 30-second commercials to full-length feature films. Not surprisingly, she threw caution, and her full-time job as creative director, to the winds and embarked on a riveting rejection-filled screenwriting journey in the US. Finally her day job entails writing movies! In a recent, delightful plot twist, her debut novel, The Spectacular Miss, was optioned by a leading Bollywood studio and she was commissioned to write the screenplay.
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