The Henna Artist
by Alia Joshi
Henna Artist is more about self reflection, earning self respect and holding ones head up high. In the beginning, I was captured by the henna & stories around it. As I listened deeper into the book, jealousy from others speared into play. When the jealousy spewed out of the clients mouths, hatred & lies went along with it. While the main character had worked hard for 17 years, built a career, a home, was in high demand, it was suddenly cut short because of a viscous woman. Lies were spread & suddenly all the good she had done, donated simply disappeared. She was a nobody. Back to where she was when she started when she was 17 years old. Cast out. Forgotten.
It took courage to get where she had gotten & the loyal one she had built up remembered what she had done for him. He was the one that saw all was lost & her future. He did not turn away when she was down & disgraced.
This book is more than about Henna and the culture. It is how one can build themselves up from nothing, have it stolen from them in a flash unjustly & the choices a woman (or man) can make to redeem themselves, allow themselves to swallow & die in disparities or rise to the challenge and remake themselves/move on.
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