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Winner of the Silver Nautilus Award for Journalism & Investigative Reporting
"A book that truly is impossible to put down.”—Washington Post
"This remarkable debut is so deeply reported, elegantly written, and profoundly transporting that it reads like a novel you can’t put down. It’s both a nuanced and intimate evocation…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Heart Is a Shifting Sea as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book provided me with an authentic and immersive reading experience, as the author—a journalist—chronicles the lives of three very different couples in Mumbai over years against the backdrop of an India that is undergoing vast economic and cultural changes.
The author expertly blends reportage with novelistic storytelling so that the book provides intimate portraits of its subjects and gloriously captures both the everyday rhythms and the larger challenges of marriage in contemporary India, where even couples entering so-called love marriages must overcome many obstacles.
From Anu's list on marriage, family, and social constraints in India.
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