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Booker Prize Winner Kiran Desai Discusses Her Latest Novel in the New York Times
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, the long-awaited novel by Kiran Desai '93, will be released by Hogarth on September 23, 2025.
Reports The New York Times:
"On a sweltering summer evening in Jackson Heights, Queens, the novelist Kiran Desai was approached on a busy corner by someone promising a glimpse of the future.
Desai politely declined. But she couldn’t resist taking a business card, which advertised the services of a fortune teller whose reputed skills included prophecy, eradicating black magic, bad luck and evil spirits, and curing more mundane problems like divorce, money troubles and reuniting with a lost love.
As she studied the card, a puzzled look crossed her face.
'Now I’m curious,' she said."