Two young people, Sonia and Sunny, are drawn to each other on a train, despite a past attempt by their grandparents to set them up that backfired. Sonia, back in India after studying in Vermont, fears a dark spell, while Sunny, a journalist in New York, is escaping family conflict. Together, they navigate the alienations of the modern world in search of happiness.
Kiran Desai is a novelist who won the Man Booker Prize for her book The Inheritance of Loss. She is also the author of The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, which looks at the quiet