Birth— 1959
Where—Assam, India
Education— Calcutta University
Currently—Arizona

Bibliography

• Teatime for the Firefly (2013)

• Flame Tree Road (2015)

Born on a remote tea plantation in Assam, Shona Patel grew up in a massive bungalow with liveried servants and acres of rolling grounds surrounded by dense rain forests.

Shona Patel, the daughter of an Assam tea planter, drew upon her personal observations and experiences to create the vivid characters and setting for Teatime for the Firefly. An honors graduate in English literature from Calcutta University, Ms. Patel has won several awards for creative writing and is a trained graphic designer.

She came to the US in 1994 after her marriage. 

Ms. Patel has won several awards for creative writing and is a trained graphic designer. “Teatime for the Firefly” is her debut novel. Her second novel “Flame Tree Road” came out in 2015.

Teatime for Firefly
Shona Patel (2013)
Shona Patel’s debut novel, Teatime for the Firefly, can be read as a gripping love story or it could be considered as a Diaspora novel in which the author introduces a new world to people who have lived close to it for years together but could never become a part of it.