Saving Face: A Novel
People love a rags-to-riches story but hate an immigrant who lied to get ahead.

Ami Shah is on the brink of life-changing success. Her skin-care empire, Amala, is set for a dream acquisition by a Fortune 500 company, and she has just been nominated for a ChangeMaker Award, the most revered entrepreneurial honor. There's just one problem: she's a complete and utter fraud.

Twenty years ago, abandoned orphan Monica Joseph made a decision that forever changed the course of her life—she stole her wealthy classmate's identity and moved abroad to build her life on someone else's name. For twenty years, she's managed to hide in plain sight…until an ambitious fledgling journalist sets out to write the inaugural full-length profile on her. With her carefully constructed persona and life's work now in jeopardy, Monica is left with no other choice: to cover up her tracks once and for all, she must return to the scene of the crime—and the one place she vowed never to revisit.

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Saving Face: A Novel
People love a rags-to-riches story but hate an immigrant who lied to get ahead.

Ami Shah is on the brink of life-changing success. Her skin-care empire, Amala, is set for a dream acquisition by a Fortune 500 company, and she has just been nominated for a ChangeMaker Award, the most revered entrepreneurial honor. There's just one problem: she's a complete and utter fraud.

Twenty years ago, abandoned orphan Monica Joseph made a decision that forever changed the course of her life—she stole her wealthy classmate's identity and moved abroad to build her life on someone else's name. For twenty years, she's managed to hide in plain sight…until an ambitious fledgling journalist sets out to write the inaugural full-length profile on her. With her carefully constructed persona and life's work now in jeopardy, Monica is left with no other choice: to cover up her tracks once and for all, she must return to the scene of the crime—and the one place she vowed never to revisit.

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Saving Face: A Novel

Saving Face: A Novel

by Mansi Shah
Saving Face: A Novel

Saving Face: A Novel

by Mansi Shah

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People love a rags-to-riches story but hate an immigrant who lied to get ahead.

Ami Shah is on the brink of life-changing success. Her skin-care empire, Amala, is set for a dream acquisition by a Fortune 500 company, and she has just been nominated for a ChangeMaker Award, the most revered entrepreneurial honor. There's just one problem: she's a complete and utter fraud.

Twenty years ago, abandoned orphan Monica Joseph made a decision that forever changed the course of her life—she stole her wealthy classmate's identity and moved abroad to build her life on someone else's name. For twenty years, she's managed to hide in plain sight…until an ambitious fledgling journalist sets out to write the inaugural full-length profile on her. With her carefully constructed persona and life's work now in jeopardy, Monica is left with no other choice: to cover up her tracks once and for all, she must return to the scene of the crime—and the one place she vowed never to revisit.

Home.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780778368403
Publisher: Park Row Books
Publication date: 08/12/2025
Edition description: Original
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Mansi Shah writes novels centering Gujarati characters that speak to generational differences across the Indian diaspora, and she's the author of the acclaimed novels The Direction of the Wind and The Taste of Ginger. Shah was born in Toronto to Indian immigrants, raised in the midwestern United States, and is now based in Los Angeles, She left her long-time career as an entertainment attorney in Hollywood to travel the world and write full time. She loves to cook and is often experimenting on new culinary creations that blend Indian flavors with other cuisines.
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