Book Launch for Nalini Jones's The Unbroken Coast

The Arts Institute invites you to a celebration and launch of The Unbroken Coast (August 2025), a novel by Nalini Jones, Assistant Professor of English.

On the night his granddaughter is born in America, an emeritus professor rides a bicycle through his quiet Catholic neighborhood in Bombay. A few streets from his home, in the heart of a Koli fishing village, he encounters a young mother praying for her baby daughter at the shrine of Our Lady of Navigators. Nearly a decade later, an accident brings their families together. Spanning the turbulent years when Bombay became Mumbai, at a time when environmental and economic pressures are beginning to change the fortunes of indigenous fisherfolk, The Unbroken Coast follows the friendship between a young girl finding her place in the world and an aging historian reckoning with his past.

After reading from the novel, Prof. Jones will be interviewed by student Sean Norton, class of '26, Creative Writing major.

Wine, beverages, and light appetizers will be served.