The Far Field

*Staff Pick* Her mother is dead. To shake her grief, a young Bangalorean woman leaves her privileged life in search of her mother’s friend who disappeared years before. Throughout the novel, readers will grapple with grief, class, finding oneself, truth, and the limits of compassion. -- Elise   "The Far Field is remarkable, a novel at once politically timely and morally timeless. Madhuri Vijay traces the fault lines of history, love, and obligation running through a fractured family and country. Few novels generate enough power to transform their characters, fewer still their readers. The Far Field does both."--Anthony Marra, author of The Tzar of Love and Techno   Gorgeously tactile and sweeping in historical and socio-political scope, Pushcart Prize-winner Madhuri Vijay's The Far Field follows a complicated flaneuse across the Indian subcontinent as she reckons with her past, her desires, and the tumultuous present.   In the wake of her mother's death, Shalini, a privileged and rest