Chitralekha ko Chaurasi
Prajwal Parajuly
Fiction | Contemporary
To commemorate Chitralekha Nepauney’s Chaurasi—her landmark 84th birthday—Chitralekha’s grandchildren are traveling to Gangtok to pay their respects. Agastaya is flying in from New York. Although a successful oncologist, he’s dreading his family’s inquisition into why he is not married. Joining him are Manasa and Bhagwati, coming from London and Colorado respectively. One the Oxford-educated achiever; the other the disgraced eloper.
All three harbor the same dual objective—to emerge from the celebrations with their grandmother’s blessing and their nerves intact, a goal that will become increasingly impossible thanks to a mischievous maid and a fourth, uninvited guest.
Everything I Know About Love
Dolly Alderton
Memoir | Romance
The wildly funny, occasionally heartbreaking internationally bestselling memoir about growing up, growing older, and learning to navigate friendships, jobs, loss, and love along the ride Glittering with wit and insight, heart and humor, Dolly Alderton’s unforgettable debut weaves together personal stories, satirical observations, a series of lists, recipes, and other vignettes that will strike a chord of recognition with women of every age—making you want to pick up the phone and tell your best friends all about it. Like Bridget Jones’ Diary but all true, Everything I Know About Love is about the struggles of early adulthood in all its terrifying and hopeful uncertainty.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh
Contemporary | Mental Health
A novel about a young woman’s efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes. My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it’s a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.
