The Turning of Kadal House: A Novel

The Turning of Kadal House is a novel about a family spice business on the coast of Kerala, in southern India, and the daughter who comes home to save it. When her father suffers a stroke, Sara leaves a fast-rising career in city commerce to take over a fifty-year-old maker of fish-curry masala that is being squeezed by a supermarket chain, undercut by a flush venture-funded rival, and quietly drained by costs no one was watching. What follows is a close, human story of how a small firm finds the few things no competitor can copy, a recipe in an old woman's hands, the trust of a flooded fishing village, the love of a scattered diaspora, and learns to build its future on them. Written for general readers and for students of business alike, it carries the truths of how companies live and die inside the story itself, so they are felt rather than recited. A short companion for instructors at the back maps the novel, chapter by chapter, to a graduate course in strategy.

Pagina's: 71, Paperback, Independently published