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Before we start a warning.
In this episode, we'll be talking about suicide and abuse.
Youre listening to life kit from NPR.
Hey, Andrew Limbaugh here in for Mario Saguera.
Heres the origin story for todays life Kit.
When Aarti Shahani was NPRS technology correspondent, she published her first book.
Here we are.
Its a memoir about her and her familys immigrant experience.
Now, Aarthy doesnt come from a family of engineers like the people she reported on.
Instead, her mom was a seamstress.
Her dad, Naam Dev, was a shopkeeper.
He had a side gig, though, of being arthys arch nemesis, you know, the man policing her dating and dancing and skirt lengths.
He was the type of dad who worried more about his daughters marriage prospects than her career ambitions.
Then Namdev got arrested for selling calculators to a drug cartel.
He landed in Rikers island and then was put put into deportation proceedings.
In a weird way, this legal crisis led to the two becoming friends.
Aarti stopped going to school to help fight her dad's case.