South Haven

Grief, violence, and history collide to offer a radical look at childhood and migration in suburban New England.

“[T]his luminous debut . . . captures precisely the heartache of growing up.” —Library Journal, Top Spring Indie Fiction

Siddharth Arora lives an ordinary life in the New England suburb of South Haven, but his childhood comes to a grinding halt when his mother dies in a car accident. Siddharth soon gravitates toward a group of adolescent bullies, drinking and smoking instead of dra...