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by Nayantara Roy
From the author of the highly acclaimed The Magnificent Ruins comes the electric story of two sisters who have to navigate a terrible betrayal from within their family.
Indian-American Mira Guhathakurta is a poetry editor at a distinguished literary magazine in New York. She reconnects with Jack, an old acquaintance from college, and feels as if she might have found her soulmate. All that remains is for Jack to meet her family: her beloved father and sister Joy, a high-powered lawyer. But when Joy commits an unthinkable act of betrayal, the sisters are impossibly fractured and their father's heart is broken. As the sisters navigate their tumultuous relationship and Mira starts over, it turns out that Joy isn't the only one who has been or continues to be dishonest.
In a propulsive story of love and passion and the ultimate pull of family and for fans of The Rachel Incident and The Paper Palace, Sisters of a Halved Heart examines the lengths we will go to in order to make our own narratives of love work out, the lies we tell ourselves, and the ways in which the truth, often right in front of you, can be impossible to see.
"Readers looking for messy, complicated characters ... will find satisfaction in every drama-laden page of this novel. The struggle for parental love and approval between the sisters feels authentic, [creating] opportunities for discussion on the impact of destructive versus supportive sibling relationships. Roy's (The Magnificent Ruins, 2024) latest is a solid suggestion for fans of Emily Giffin [and] Kristin Hannah ... and character-driven novels." ―Booklist
"With subtle grace and a fierce, deep compassion for her characters, Roy paints an unforgettable portrait of sisterhood and family." —Shelf Awareness
"Lush, heady, sophisticated, suffused with atmospheric detail that spans continents, Nayantara Roy's novel is so riveting the reader will want to keep turning the pages, but so beautifully written it encourages lingering, savoring Roy's elegant prose. The subject here is love in all its forms: filial, sisterly, thwarted, abiding, romantic, miraculous, and always, always surprising. I loved this book." ―Dani Shapiro, author of Signal Fires
"Witty, sexy, dark, and messy, Sisters of a Halved Heart is a novel of passion, renewal, and family, both related and chosen. It is a story for people in search of love and belonging—a story for all of us." ―Juhea Kim, internationally bestselling author of A Love Story from the End of the World
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Nayantara Roy's debut novel, The Magnificent Ruins, was a New York Times Editor's Choice novel of 2024, an LA Times Editor's Pick, a Washington Post Best Book, a People Magazine Best Book and an Apple best debut among others. The book is currently being adapted for television. In 2018, Roy won the Rick DeMarinis Short Story Prize for her short story, "8C." Her plays have been performed internationally, in the UK and India. By day, she is the Senior Vice President of Television at Sandbox Entertainment where she acquires and develops original scripted series. She was born in Kolkata and now lives in Los Angeles.
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