She had gone back for a book. The last day of college, her friends already ahead, a copy of Roots left under a tree. She turned back alone into the evening.
She did not come back the same.
Hindsight moves between 1990s Coimbatore and present-day Pennsylvania, through the lives of people caught in the wake of a single evening. Sandhya, who spent fifteen years living with something everyone agreed had not happened. Aditya, who was there after, and left. Vikram, who stayed. And the others who made their choices in the dark and have been living with them since.
When India erupts over the Nirbhaya case in December 2012, something shifts. Old names surface. Questions that were never asked begin to insist.
A novel about what is taken from a woman when no one will name it. And what it costs, for everyone, when someone finally does.
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