Category: Indian Fiction

All Our Evenings

Ruthvika Rao

1/5 stars

All Our Evenings is a slow, claustrophobic confession novel about Arjun, a middle-aged Hyderabad man whose life has been frozen since one violent summer in adolescence. It wants to be a novel about first love, class, caste, family disgrace, queer desire, guilt, memory, parental complicity, social cruelty, and the lives that remain stuck after one […]

The First House

Avni Doshi

1/5 stars

This novel begins at the moment the narrator’s husband tells her that he no longer wants to be married. He tells her in the bedroom that they have shared for thirteen years, and the narrator experiences it as a physical catastrophe, imagining her head has been severed from her body. Her husband speaks calmly, listing […]