Listening Now

From the author of Fear and Lovely: “A large book in every sense, a panorama filled with insight and surprise, inviting, absorbing and satisfying.” —The Boston Globe

Shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award

In an ordinary New Delhi neighborhood, fatherless twelve-year-old Mallika is full of romantic dreams. Her mother, her mother’s friends, her aunt, her grandmother—none of them understand what it means to be passionate, to feel sorrow or excitement, to yearn. Or so she believes.

In truth, t...