Anna Chatterjee has just been released from prison. Her husband, Prabir, has arrived to take her home and found her already gone; their flighty and artistic grown children, Neal and Nina are left to navigate the fallout both from Anna's disappearance and the trauma that splintered their lives years earlier. But as the story ricochets between past and present, the question looms: Where is Anna now? As the story moves between decades and continents, Monica Datta considers the twentieth century experiment and its outcomes, often set against the testimony of the spritely Lacanian Jean-Louis Katz, whose life becomes entangled with their own as well as that of the Bengali psychoanalyst B.X. Roy.
Electrifying ... The flashes of insight about her characters are brilliant, and frightening ... Still, the depictions of grief in Nebraska border on the transcendent ... Not merely a novel of a murder, maladapted immigrants, the limits of the American justice system or the loneliness of marriage. It is all of that, and more.
Labyrinthine ... Her tale demands careful attention and an adventurous spirit from the reader. An ambitious and layered family saga by an original voice.
