It is 1991. As Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated and a new government comes to power, setting in motion a process of economic reforms that will transform India, an ordinary family is about to experience detours from the traditional middle-class script of their lives. Over the next quarter century, as the world around them changes in ways unexpected, their lives too wind along uncharted trails, sometimes sunlit, sometimes shadowy and forbidding.

Aruna Nambiar is a Bengaluru-based writer and editor who grew up in Mumbai, where she studied engineering and management. She started her career with an international bank before pursuing her passion for writing. Her previous books include, Mango Cheeks, Metal Teeth, a humorous coming-of-age story and social satire set in 1980s Kerala. She has also written for the coffee table book, Portrait Kerala, and contributed short fiction and non-fiction pieces to several anthologies, newspapers and magazines.