I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.

I grew up sailing in the North Sea.

I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.

My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.

My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.