About the Book: Wont You Stay, Radhika?
After her widowed father marries a younger woman, Radhikas world falls apart.
She feels betrayed—the emotional and intellectual bond that she had forged with
him since the early death of her mother breaks with that sudden marriage. To
escape the unbearable situation at home—the growing rift between her and her
father—Radhika moves to Chicago to pursue her masters in fine arts. She returns
to India two years later, burdened by a sense of alienation and homesickness,
only to realize that while nothing had changed in her country, everything had.
The family that she had longed to be reunited with barely