Born in New Delhi, India, Abha Dawesar has written two other novels. Her most recent novel, Babyji, won the 2006 American Library Association'sStonewall Book Award. She is also a winner of an NYFA Fiction Fellowship.
A universal story of pain, loss, and the continuous need for love. . . . Dawesar's erotic prose jumps off the page like a dancer in flight. --Chicago Sun-Times The characters in Dawesar's charmingly oddball novel care so passionately about art that it literally turns them on. . . . sharp intellectual back-and-forth drives both this unlikely romance and Dawesar's quirky novel. --Entertainment Weekly A provocative tale of love and the literature it inspires . . . Dawesar's third novel is a contemplative, sensual, and literary m�lange. --Booklist