Following her late husband’s ghost to a town high in the Indian Himalayas, Doctor Mary stumbles into an abandoned mission hospital. Caught between her recent grief and the hopeless care of a dying baby girl, she begins a year long odyssey of descent and redemption that connects her with a cast of unexpected characters. There is Amod, the waiter in the local dhaba, who secretly adores and watches out for the doctor. Phillip is a young and lonely British traveller who momentarily lands in the doctor’s care before he is kidnapped deep into the snowbound Himalayan interior. Antone is the aging heroin-addicted kidnapper whose every plan goes sour. And finally there is Meena—abandoned by her family to serve the abusive men of an isolated road crew—who finds the hidden strength and courage to lead herself and young Phillip to their ultimate salvation in the care of a hashish smoking holy man.Introducing an original new voice in American literature, Himalayan Dhaba leads the reader through the mountains of India with a lyric and compelling prose, an authentic sense of place, and a story that won’t be forgotten. Read Less