268pp, paperback, Morristown, 2024
Historical novel.
In 1887 Shivali leaves her village in India and travels with her two children to Port Natal to start a new life as an indentured labourer on a sugarcane farm.
Arvashni Seeripat, a South African of Indian origin, works as a healthcare executive. She lives in the USA. The Story I told Myself is her debut novel.