Monica Datta & Radhika Jones

The captivating and tragicomic story of the Chatterjee family and the catastrophe that tore them apart — for fans of Kiran Desai's The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny and Jonathan Franzen's Crossroads.

Anna Chatterjee has just been released from prison. Her husband, Prabir, has arrived to take her home and found her already gone; their grown children, Neal and Nina, are left to navigate the fallout from Anna's disappearance and the trauma that splintered their lives years earlier. But as the story ricochets between past and present, the question looms: Where is Anna now? Moving between decades and continents, Monica Datta considers the twentieth century experiment and its outcomes, set against the testimony of the sprightly Lacanian Jean-Louis Katz, whose life becomes entangled with the family's and that of the Bengali psychoanalyst B.X. Roy. A novel of characters who, while deeply separate, respond to the irresolvable questions that make us human.

Monica Datta joins Radhika Jones in conversation.

Monica Datta is the author of Thieving Sun. Her writing has appeared in The Believer, Conjunctions, and The New Inquiry, among other journals. She has received support from the Mellon Foundation, the Fine Arts Work Center, Kundiman, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference.

Radhika Jones, former editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair, is at work on a memoir titled Bookish. She previously held senior editorial roles at the New York Times and TIME, holds a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia, and serves on the boards of CARE and The Paris Review.