Women in Marigold by Mansi Dahal

From Stillhouse Press:

Wilting coriander, etched steel plates, and long, dark hair spread on a beauty parlor floor—Mansi Dahal’s remarkable debut collection is intimacy over a kitchen sink, sheer evidence of presence. At its center is the ache of dislocation and the desire for rootedness, captured in a single, impossible wish: “Imagine being able to live / in one place at one time.” Interrogating what we inherit, Women in Marigold moves from Kathmandu to New York City, from Saeeda Bai to Sylvia Plath, confronting the tension between life as a daughter in Nepal and a future as an artist in America.