- Fiction, India, Literary Fiction, Dystopia
In a near-future Kolkata, Ma, her two-year-old daughter, and her elderly father are just days from leaving the collapsing city behind to join Ma's husband in Ann Arbor, Michigan. After procuring long-awaited visas from the consulate, they pack their bags for the flight to America.
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Contemporary, grave, earnest and overwhelming.
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- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Megha Majumdar
- First published
- 2025
- Pages
- 216
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780593804872
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