Beyond My Father's House

Beyond My Father's House Is a novel about a friendship forged in India and renewed in the USA during the time of the Oklahoma bombing in 1995, which took 168 lives. It delves into the complexities of cross-cultural relationships, personal growth, and the enduring power of friendship.

My first book, My Father's House (MFH), is a memoir-based book published in 2024. My Father's House, set in the bustling Bombay of the 1950s and narrated by Mathew, the youngest in an Orthodox Christian family. Led by his generous and resilient parents, Daniel and Rachel, the family of five and two or three job-seeking guests at a time live in a cramped, third-floor tenement whose windows overlook the city's engaging chaos, which, in Mathew's observation, imitates their own lives, the quiet confidence running in the background like a silent river, amidst the joys and struggles of daily living. Despite their limited means, his parents welcomed the less fortunate to stay for free in their one-room tenement while they searched for jobs.

Steeplechase and Other Stories, biographically based, is a collection of 15 short stories published in 2025. One story, "Walking My Baby Back Home," features my granddaughter after her first day of kindergarten, when we encountered a cicada with a broken wing, and how a teaching moment reversed roles. Another is about a church I helped build, which ended up without a steeple.

Simpli Ma's Story is my third book, a similar work in the same genre, and it is about my mother, an uncommon woman.