Massey’s novels are also available in different languages and formats in Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain and Thailand.
In this novel, a 10-year-old peasant girl, Pom, orphaned by a cyclone, undertakes an odyssey through colonial Bengal that leads her into an adult life as a freedom fighter.
[4] It starts with a first novel, The Widows of Malabar Hill, that centers on a young female Parsi woman lawyer who battles discrimination in her own career and in the lives of women and children she assists.
The book’s protagonist, Perveen Mistry, was partially inspired by India’s first two trailblazing women lawyers, the solicitor Cornelia Sorabji and the barrister Mithan Jamshed Lam.
Short fiction Featuring Rei Shimura The Salaryman’s Wife, Zen Attitude and The Flower Master were published as audiobooks by Tantor Media for distribution in the United States and Canada.