LAVANYA LAKSHMI was born in New Delhi and grew up in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong. One of her many childhood homes was a suite on the 37th floor of a luxury hotel. She lives in Toronto, where she is a sales director for Penguin Random House Canada. Leave and Come Back is her first novel.
""Leave and Come Back is a phenomenal debut. I cannot remember the last time I smiled this much while reading! Prepare to fall in love with the entire cast of characters while Lakshmi expertly weaves humour, heart and tenderness onto every page.” —Hannah Bonam-Young, New York Times bestselling author of People Watching Leave and Come Back is the kind of book that stays with you. Lavanya Lakshmi has created characters who feel so real it’s like you can hear their hearts beating through the page. A deeply moving, supremely witty, simply phenomenal debut.”—Jessica Joyce, bestselling author of You, with a View and The Ex Vows