Abbey Irene Seitz

Perseverance Flooded the Streets Abbey Irene Seitz

In the midst of a chaotic, unbound city, Lovelyn's silence is haunting her. Lovelyn is a 25-year-old graduate student in Madison when she is offered a research position in Bangalore, India. Before stepping foot in Bangalore, Lovelyn wakes to a harsh depression after being assaulted. As Lovelyn travels through the colorful and dilapidated landscape of urban India, she must confront her broken mental world, all while trying to understand, and overcome, the complex social and cultural norms that continue to hold women back. Moving, intimate, and beautifully written, Perseverance Flooded the Streets is a book for a rising generation of girls and women; a novel that at once reminds us that resilience resides in all of us, ebbing and flowing like waves through despair and triumph.