Shaila’s Dance

Description

For Anokhi, dance is more than art. It’s the key to finding her roots.

Since she was a child, Anokhi has been haunted by the same vivid vision: a mysterious dancing woman with golden anklet bells and white flowers in her ink-black hair. Her movements are hypnotic, flowing, beautiful. But who is she? And why does Anokhi feel so connected to her?

Growing up in small-town Idaho after being adopted from India as a baby, Anokhi has always felt like an outsider, caught between cultures, between reality and her dreams. When her best friend and fellow misfit, Kale, drops out of high school, she does too. Determined to find her place in the world, Anokhi buys a one-way plane ticket to Delhi, away from the woman who raised her and away from Kale, the boy she may or may not be a little bit in love with. When Anokhi’s search for answers to her past leads her to South India, she is swept into the magical world of Indian classical dance, which takes her down unexpected paths to discover what-and who-really matters.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Mohini Dasari
Published: 01/13/2026
Publisher: GFB
ISBN: 9781967510023
Pages: 338
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 0.76″ H x 8.50″ L x 5.50″ W

About the Author
Dasari, Mohini: – Mohini Dasari is an Indian American writer whose study of Indian classical dance and time spent living in India inspired many aspects of Shaila’s Dance. She is a general surgeon and lives in Washington state with her family.