Shortlisted for the Booker Prize • New York Times Bestseller • TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2025•
From Booker Prize–winning author Kiran Desai (The Inheritance of Loss) comes an epic love story that stretches across India and America, past and present.
Sonia and Sunny first glimpse each other on an overnight train — awkwardly aware that their grandparents once tried (and failed) to arrange a match between them. Years later, their lives are shaped by very different forces. Sonia, an aspiring novelist back in India after studying in Vermont, feels shadowed by a past relationship that still unsettles her. Sunny, a struggling journalist in New York, is trying to outrun family expectations and the violence of his powerful clan.
When their paths converge again, they begin searching — together — for love, freedom, and meaning in a world defined by migration, class, history, and inheritance.
Sweeping, lyrical, and immersive, this is a big-hearted literary novel about fate, family, and the ways we belong (or don’t) across continents.
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