Description
The founder of a skincare line teeters on career-defining success when a bullish journalist sets out to write her inaugural profile, threatening to unearth her darkest secret--that she's not the wealthy socialite she portrays, but an immigrant of modest means who built a life on someone else's name. Perfect for readers of White Ivy and Yellowface.
People love a rags-to-riches story but hate a woman who lied to get ahead.
Ami Shah is on the brink of life-changing success. Her skin-care empire, Amala, is set for acquisition by a Fortune 500 company, and she has just been nominated for the Global Changemakers Award, the most revered entrepreneurial honor. There's just one problem: she's a complete and utter fraud.
Twenty years ago in Singapore, abandoned orphan Monica Joseph made a decision to steal her wealthy classmate's identity and move halfway around the world to build her life on someone else's name. For twenty years, she's managed to hide in plain sight...until an ambitious fledgling journalist sets out to write the inaugural full-length profile on her. With her carefully constructed persona and life's work now in jeopardy, Monica is left with no other choice: she must return to the scene of the crime--and the one place she vowed never to revisit.
Home.
Author: Mansi Shah
Publisher: Park Row
Published: 08/12/2025
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
ISBN13: 9780778368403
ISBN10: 0778368408
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Cultural Heritage
- Fiction | World Literature | Southeast Asia
- Fiction | Diversity & Multicultural
People love a rags-to-riches story but hate a woman who lied to get ahead.
Ami Shah is on the brink of life-changing success. Her skin-care empire, Amala, is set for acquisition by a Fortune 500 company, and she has just been nominated for the Global Changemakers Award, the most revered entrepreneurial honor. There's just one problem: she's a complete and utter fraud.
Twenty years ago in Singapore, abandoned orphan Monica Joseph made a decision to steal her wealthy classmate's identity and move halfway around the world to build her life on someone else's name. For twenty years, she's managed to hide in plain sight...until an ambitious fledgling journalist sets out to write the inaugural full-length profile on her. With her carefully constructed persona and life's work now in jeopardy, Monica is left with no other choice: she must return to the scene of the crime--and the one place she vowed never to revisit.
Home.
Author: Mansi Shah
Publisher: Park Row
Published: 08/12/2025
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
ISBN13: 9780778368403
ISBN10: 0778368408
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Cultural Heritage
- Fiction | World Literature | Southeast Asia
- Fiction | Diversity & Multicultural