Mata Naveena

Mata Naveena

This novel of historical fiction follows of Shashi, an East Indian woman born in Bihar north of the Ganges in the early 20th century to her death there nearly a century later. In between, she goes to college and graduates as a teacher from Patna University where she met and married the love of her life Mohan and bears him five children. But when they move to the U.S. to be close to a married daughter and her family, her husband unexpectedly dies, and Shashi returns to Bihar to find her destiny as a spiritual leader.