At a recent librarian’s convention in Williamsburg, my “Lalli’s Window” generated a lot of interest (and buying power!). The appearance of a eleven-year-old South-Asian girl who loses a leg in an accident brought tears to the eyes of another eleven-year-old girl who asked me when I was signing the book for her: “Did she HAVE to lose a leg?” It broke my heart, but I felt at that moment that it changed that empathic girl’s perception of the world around her, as it did my Lalli’s!
About kamakshi
Kamakshi Pappu Murti is a retired professor of German Studies. She has published children’s books centered on young and older teens. Murti has also published murder mysteries featuring two indomitable female sleuths, avatars of Agatha Christie’s Jane Marple: “Murders Most Matronly” and “Murders in the Ivory Tower.” Her scholarly writing addresses multi-cultural issues, and gender studies (“India: The Seductive and Seduced ‘Other’ of German Orientalism” and “To Veil or not to Veil: Europe’s Shape-shifting ‘Other’.”
Kamakshi P. Murti 
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