Why read A Patchwork Family?

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‘In Mukta Sathe we have a new voice that displays a deep understanding of both the old and the young, of their complex relationships, and of how crime and punishment play out under our flawed judicial system. A Patchwork Family is a novel that I found difficult to put down.’…

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Why read it?

1 author picked A Patchwork Family as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Anjum Hasan

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Crimes again women are discussed ad nauseam in the media but this was the first time I read a novel that made the subject painfully uncomfortable for me by telling the story not in the voice of the victim but through the reflections of a witness who probes everyone’s culpability, including her own. This powerful debut shines a very revealing light on what it means to be a comfortably middle-class Indian.

From Anjum's list on The best contemporary Indian novels you have (likely) never heard of.