SURUCHI MOHAN, DIVINE MUSIC

“Suruchi Mohan's novel, Divine Music, tells the story of Sarika, a talented student of Indian music, who falls in love with her music teacher and learns the hard way about the place of women in traditional Indian society. Told against the backdrop of political and social changes in India during the seventies, and the growing dissatisfaction of ordinary people, Divine Music is at the same time a story of love and betrayal, of society tangled in its own net of customs and traditions, of accomplishment and fall, and of hope that one could still learn something from one's own mistakes. But most of all, this is a novel about the beauty and power of music, its ability to help and heal, to come to one's rescue after everything else has failed.” --David Albahari, Canadian author of Words are Something Else, and Gotz and Meyer

A native of India, Suruchi Mohan is a journalist who covered high-tech and business news through the nineties. Her nonfiction has appeared in numerous publications including San Jose Mercury News, Reader’s Digest, Sacred Fire, and Business Journal. Divine Music is her first work of fiction. Mohan lives in Northern California with her family.