The Roof Beneath Their Feet

""What does mourning look like? What is the nature of grief? These are some of the questions that Geetanjali Shree explores. In The Roof Beneath Their Feet, grief takes different forms. It spreads everywhere. Memory becomes grief. This is a lucid meditation on desire, grief and belonging."" --Hindustan Times ""The Roof of Beneath Their Feet is not to be read as just a novel but perhaps as an answer to the larger questions of love, memories, language, and loneliness."" --Scroll Praise for Tomb of Sand ""An extraordinarily exuberant and incredibly playful book. . . . It manages to take issues of great seriousness--bereavement, loss, death--and conjure up an extraordinary choir, almost a cacophony, of voices. . . . It is extraordinarily fun and it is extraordinarily funny."" -- Frank Wynne, chair of the International Booker committee ""Shree combines linguistic energy with unflagging wit to uncover the secrets and lies of Indian family life . . . [with] a marvelous ear. . . . Shree has no doubt drawn on the many writer she invokes directly in Tomb of Sand, but the novel I was most reminded of is an English-language one: Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children."" -- New York Review of Books ""Shree is an excellent observer of women's inner lives. . . . This book, this Booker, has come at last, and for me it has come as a breath of fresh air."" -- The Observer ""A triumph of literature."" -- The Financial Times ""An homage to the vibrancy of Hindi . . . [that] takes a page from Salman Rushdie's playbook with its adept use of magic realism . . . [Shree is] unabashedly paving her own path through the sandstorm of writers pining for Western acclaim."" -- Washington Post