Nebraska

 

Nebraska is the captivating and tragicomic story of the Chatterjee family and the catastrophe that tore them apart. For fans of Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny and Jonathan Franzen’s Crossroads.

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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?

Nebraska moves between decades and continents while 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 the Chatterjees as well as that of the Bengali psychoanalyst (and occasional gadfly) B.X. Roy.

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With precision, range, and deep emotional insight, Nebraska is an all-enveloping fictional experience not to be missed. It is a novel of characters who, while deeply separate, respond to the irresolvable questions that make us human.