About the Book: Our Friends in Good Houses
Neel is a journalist drawn to war zones. Its in these spaces riven by conflict
that his sense of dislocation, of not belonging anywhere, drops off him. At all
other times, hes in quest, seeking solid ground: a home. It is a pursuit that
takes him halfway across the world to America and back to the urban dystopia of
Delhi, headlong into fleeting relationships that glimmer with the promise of
shelter
Is Neel—haunted by the past and exiled from the present—likely to find what he
desires in ephemeral associations? Will he chance upon the quiet anchorage