A national bestseller in India, Almond Eyes, Lotus Feet is the fictional memoir
of a wise Indian princess, who recalls the ways the women of the Indian court
found friendship, faith, and love through their beauty traditions. We journey
with her as she recounts a lifetime of comforting rituals, tantalizing textures,
colors, and fragrances, exquisite jewels and adornments, and assorted beauty and
health secrets passed through generations of women by word of mouth.
In Almond Eyes, Lotus Feet, Sharada Dwivedi, a native of India, and Shalini Devi
Holkar, an Indian princess by marriage, draw on the oral histories of privileged
Indian women to capture and revive their