Welcome to Kittur, India. Of its 193,432 residents, only 89 declare themselves
to be without religion or caste. And if the characters in Between the
Assassinations are any indication, Kittur is an extraordinary crossroads between
the brightest minds and the poorest morals, the up-and-coming and the
downtrodden, and the poets and the prophets of an India that modern literature
has rarely addressed.
A series of sketches that together form a blinding, brilliant, and brave mosaic
of Indian life as it is lived in a place called Kittur, Between the
Assassinations, with all the humor, sympathy, and unflinching candor of The
White Tiger, enlarges our understanding of the