Vauhini Vara

"A brilliant and beautifully written book about capitalism and the patriarchy, about Dalit India and digital America, about power and family and love" - Alex Preston, Observer, 'Fiction to look out for in 2022' Will you, dear Shareholder, set Athena free? Athena Rao must reckon with the memory of her father, King Rao - literally. Through biotechnological innovation, he has...

Pushing intimacy to its limits in prose of unearthly beauty, Vauhini Vara explores the nature of being a child, parent, friend, sibling, neighbour or lover, and the relationships between self and others. A young girl reads the encyclopedia to her elderly neighbour, who is descending into dementia. A pair of teenagers seek intimacy as phone-sex operators. A competitive sibling tries...

A brilliant and beautifully written book about capitalism and the patriarchy, about Dalit India and digital America, about power and family and love - Alex Preston, Observer, 'Fiction to look out for in 2022'. Vauhini Vara's lyrical and thought-provoking debut novel begins in India in the 1950s, following a young man born into a Dalit family of coconut farmers in...

One of Esquire's 20 Most Anticipated Books of 2025 One of Foreign Policy's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 One of Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 One of Electric Literature's 48 Books by Women of Colour to Read in 2025 When Vauhini Vara was fourteen, her sister was diagnosed with cancer. Too terrified to discuss it with a human,...