Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents (71 page)

MINAL HAJRATWALA
is a writer, performer, poet, and queer activist based in San Francisco, where she was born before being whisked off to be raised in New Zealand and suburban Michigan. She spent seven years researching and writing
Leaving India,
traveling the world to interview more than seventy-five members of her extended family. As a journalist, she worked at the
San Jose Mercury News
for eight years and was a National Arts Journalism Program fellow at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. She is a graduate of Stanford University.

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© Martha Kennedy (sky and palms)
Spine and back jacket photographs courtesy of the author
Author photograph © Bob Hsiang

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