Shadows in the Sun: Healing from Depression and Finding the Light Within

Presents a first-of-its-kind, cross-cultural lens to mental illness through the inspiring story of Gayathri’s thirty-year battle with depression. This literary memoir takes readers from her childhood in India where depression is thought to be a curse to life in America where she eventually finds the light within by drawing on both her rich Hindu heritage and Western medicine to spare.

As a young girl in Bangalore, Gayathri was surrounded by the fragrance of jasmine and flickering oil lamp…