My Own Private Bollywood

Following her acclaimed memoir about stage-four cancer, Katherine Russell Rich went to India to learn a new language. It was a lot easier than figuring out the showers.

Published Jul. 7 2009 1:39AM EDT

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When I decided to write Dreaming in Hindi, it was less than a year after I’d published The Red Devil: To Hell With Cancer—and Back, a memoir about the clash of cultures that occurred when I contracted an illness that denuded my head while working for magazines that exalted perfection....

Katherine Russell Rich

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My Own Private Bollywood

Following her acclaimed memoir about stage-four cancer, Katherine Russell Rich went to India to learn a new language. It was a lot easier than figuring out the showers.

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Katherine Russell Rich