{"id":948,"date":"2022-09-20T16:10:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T20:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/?page_id=948"},"modified":"2026-02-09T17:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:22:15","slug":"sita-in-exile","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/novellas\/sita-in-exile\/","title":{"rendered":"Sita in Exile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Rashi Rohatgi

2022 NOVELLA PRIZE SELECTED BY MISHA RAI
May 2, 2023
ISBN 9781881163725
$17.00
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When Indian American Sita moves to the Norwegian Arctic, she finds a warm welcome from Mona, a local surfer from a refugee family who sees her as someone with whom she can be herself. But Sita\u2019s not sure how to reciprocate, for as she begins to discover impossible fruits in the forest, she grows more unsure of who she is: a happy wife, when her husband seems impatient with her inability to assimilate? A good mother, when she can\u2019t fathom what her baby wants? A pet-killer, when she was just acting on instinct? A terrible person, for leaving behind her grieving father and her best friend Bhoomija, a brown feminist artist struggling to get by during the pandemic? Or someone even worse, as she finds herself drawn to Mona\u2019s partner, Morten, who owns the only land on which she feels whole?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Bhoomija asks her to return home, Sita must take stock not only of the life she\u2019s made in the far north with Mona, but also of the self she\u2019s held back, lying in wait for forgiveness, and choose which version to make real. Drawing upon Hindu mythology, SITA IN EXILE is a lyrical exploration of migrant sisterhood and brown motherhood in today\u2019s Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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