Kirthana Ramisetti

Unsurprising mysteries: the past of a rich celebrity

Kirthana Ramisetti’s first novel was unusual, even if it didn’t live up to its initial promise. I picked up her second at the library, in the hope that the author had developed beyond the flaws of the first. Advika and...

5 November 2023
Susan

An uncommonly multicultural family with common problems

At its outset, Dava Shastri’s Last Day seems pleasantly nonconformist. The eponymous central figure is a self-made billionaire. Despite having been brought up in the US as an Indian-American, she does not suffer from ethnic existential angst. She marries a...