Nayantara Roy

Nov 29, 2024 | shelf-awareness.com | Naomi Wood |Nayantara Roy |Mia Manansala |Sarah Hawley

This Is Why We Can't Have Nice ThingsShare with friends:Permanent Link:In her wickedly entertaining first short story collection, This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, Naomi Wood explores motherhood from multiple intriguing, often dark angles and revels in the sardonic humor of women who, having conformed for long enough, are resolute in their rebellion.

Nov 23, 2024 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Nayantara Roy

Thoreau’s God by Richard Higgins (University of Chicago Press). Reviewed by Christopher Lancette. “I’d be lying if I didn’t report that Thoreau’s God, by former Boston Globe staff writer Richard Higgins, sent me both to the mountaintop and to the tree. I probably spent as much time in its pages wondering why I continue to torture myself with Thoreau as I did reveling in the life lessons he bestows.

Nov 20, 2024 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Nayantara Roy

“As a family, we were long practiced in the art of secrets, trading one deception for another through generations,” writes Nayantara Roy in the prologue to her debut novel, The Magnificent Ruins. “But that night on the terrace…I wondered if there would be no hiding this time. A secret is a terrible thing.

Nov 3, 2024 | newsindiatimes.com | Ron Charles |Nayantara Roy

May 20, 2023 | asianage.com | Nayantara Roy

Books   20 May 2023  Book Review | Poignant trip across friendships, philosophies and ties that bind... THE ASIAN AGE.