Indira Ganesan Book order

The return to their childhood home on the island of Pi prompts sisters Renu and Manx to confront their past after a decade in suburban America. The vibrant, surreal landscape of the island contrasts with their previous life, evoking both nostalgia and alienation. Their journey, sparked by the death of cousin Rajesh, unfolds through unexpected paths, leading to profound revelations about family and identity. The story weaves together themes of loss, memory, and the complexities of cultural belonging.

Characters leap off the pages and into our hearts. . . . Ganesan crafts her work with such a gracefully light touch that readers leave the book with the sense of having just experienced something exquisitely fine. -Joan Hinkemeyer, Rocky Mountain News Inheritance is a gracefully wrought novel centering on the emotional awakening of Sonil, a fifteen-year-old girl living with her aunts in India. Overcome by a lingering illness, she travels to the mythic island of Pi to recover under the care of her beloved grandmother. In this lush Arcadian space, boundaries between what is real and what is not diminish, and Sonil begins to discover who she is. Rejected by her emotionally distant mother and searching desperately for any information about her American father, she seeks solace in an affair with an American man twice her age. It is through that relationship of love and loss that she begins to understand and forgive her mother, realizing for the first time what she has inherited and what she must forge for herself.