TEN REINCARNATIONS OF REBELLION

Set in a version of India that was never liberated from the British, Kalki Divekar, a young woman, sparks a revolution against the oppressors - a big speculative fiction novel of empowerment, friendship, self-determination, and the true meaning of freedom.

Kalki Divekar has always known British rule must end, and she intends to be the one to do it. In an India that never gained independence from its oppressors, Kalki grows up a daughter of Kingstona city the British built on the ashes of Bombay. The older generation, including her father, have been lost to the brutal British hunt for rebels. Young men are drafted to fight wars they will never return from. And the people of her city are more interested in struggling for power with each other than facing their true oppressors. When tragedy strikes close to home, Kalki and her group of friends begin to play a dangerous game, attaining jobs working for the British to destroy the empire from the inside out. In secret, they gradually found Kingston's new independence movement. As the movement faces threats from all quarters, including Kalki's own impulsivity, Kalki must decide whether it's more important to be a hero or to survive. Inspired by the author's own family's experience as freedom fighters in Maharashtra, TEN INCARNATIONS OF REBELLION is a big, important speculative fiction novel of empowerment, friendship, self-determination, and the true meaning of freedom. VAISNAVI PATEL is a lawyer specializing in civil rights litigation, including issues of gender and racial justice. Her short fiction has been published in The Dark and 87 Bedford's Historical Fantasy Anthology and Helios Quarterly. Her first novel, KAIKEYI, a subversive retelling of the Indian epic of Ramayana through the perspective of its female villain, was a Book of the Month Club pick for April, the Indie Next Pick for May, a Waterstones Paperback of the Year, and debuted on the NEW YORK TIMES hardcover bestseller list at #14.