She also loves experimenting on new culinary creations and finding ways to blend the Indian flavors from her childhood with other cuisines. She’s traveled to over 70 countries spanning 6 continents and has many more places she wants to visit. When Mansi is not writing, she’s traveling and exploring different cultures near and far. She signed her first “real book” deal in 2020. While working as an entertainment lawyer upon her return to Los Angeles, she began writing The Taste of Ginger. After working at a large international law firm for a few years, she moved to London to attend the London School of Economics and hoped an adult sabbatical to England would help her figure out “what she wanted to be when she grew up.” The answer hadn’t changed since fourth grade. She also had the opportunity to study abroad in Melbourne, Australia, and her love for exploring other countries and immersing herself in new cultures was ignited! After Australia, Mansi moved to Los Angeles to attend law school at UCLA. While at UIUC, Mansi majored in psychology, and still never ceases to be amazed by human behavior, firmly believing that truth is always stranger than fiction. (That first book is likely in a box in her parents’ garage.) Her family later moved to the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, and from there she attended the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign. She first lived in rural Oklahoma, in a small town of fewer than 5000 people with only a single stoplight-it could not have contrasted more from the cosmopolitan city of her birth! She then lived in Hannibal, Missouri (the boyhood home of Mark Twain), and she was in fourth grade when she wrote her first novel and decided she wanted to publish a “real book” someday.
Mansi Shah was born in Toronto, Canada, and her family immigrated to the United States when she was a young girl.
Torn between two beautifully flawed cultures, Preeti must now untangle what home truly means to her. Surrounded by the sights and sounds of her heritage, Preeti catches a startling glimpse of her family’s battles with class, tradition, and sacrifice. But when Preeti receives word of a terrible accident in the city where she was born, she returns to India, where she’ll have to face her estranged parents…and the complicated past they left behind. Years later, with her parents not speaking to her and her controversial relationship in tatters, all Preeti has left is her career at a prestigious Los Angeles law firm. All she did was fall in love with a white Christian carnivore instead of a conventional Indian boy. After her parents moved her and her brother to America, Preeti Desai never meant to tear her family apart.
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