Not Quite a Disaster After All

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In this house filled with voices and footsteps a time allowed and a time needed to bridge the discrepancy between who you were and who you wanted to become. Under the canopy of the day you could see from this distance how shattered the world was that we lived in and how beautiful its dust.</em></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </em><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(255 0 0 1)> </strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>In six haunting stories that span two continents and two decades we follow</span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(255 0 0 1)> </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Anjali misfit the expensively educated daughter of a wealthy family from her childhood in Calcutta to her coming of age in New York City claiming the grimy dive bars of the East Village as her own.</span><s style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </s></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>We also see her childhood friend Anita who struggles with the quieter life marriage and motherhood she has chosen in a suburb of Ohio. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>These are women who muster all their grit and resolve in order to make their way. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Not Quite a Disaster after All</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> is about how our expectations of life shift and change how they can be pushed in the most unpredictable ways. It is about the thin line between self-destruction and survival. It is also a novel about falling in love-with a person a city or simply with the alluring exciting promise of the new.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Deceptively simple and gently ironic these nuanced stories of great depth and power mark the arrival of an outstanding voice.</span><s style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </s></p><p></p>