About this ebook
A Masterful, Time-spanning Doorstopper
—Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture
"A dizzying, occasionally nausea-inducing masterwork that defies categorization or prurient interest . . . The flashes of insight about [Datta's] characters are brilliant, and frightening . . . the depictions of grief in Nebraska border on the transcendent."
—Joumana Khatib, The New York Times Book Review
Anna Chatterjee has just been released from prison. Her husband, Prabir, has arrived to take her home and found her already gone; their flighty and artistic grown children, Neal and Nina are left to navigate the fallout both from Anna's disappearance and the trauma that splintered their lives years earlier. But as the story ricochets between past and present, the question looms: Where is Anna now?
As the story moves between decades and continents, Monica Datta considers the twentieth century experiment and its outcomes, often set against the testimony of the spritely Lacanian Jean-Louis Katz, whose life becomes entangled with their own as well as that of the Bengali psychoanalyst B.X. Roy.
With precision, range and deep emotional insight, Nebraska is an all-enveloping fictional experience not to be missed. It is a novel of characters who, while deeply separate, respond to the irresolvable questions that make us human.
—Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture
"A dizzying, occasionally nausea-inducing masterwork that defies categorization or prurient interest . . . The flashes of insight about [Datta's] characters are brilliant, and frightening . . . the depictions of grief in Nebraska border on the transcendent."
—Joumana Khatib, The New York Times Book Review
Anna Chatterjee has just been released from prison. Her husband, Prabir, has arrived to take her home and found her already gone; their flighty and artistic grown children, Neal and Nina are left to navigate the fallout both from Anna's disappearance and the trauma that splintered their lives years earlier. But as the story ricochets between past and present, the question looms: Where is Anna now?
As the story moves between decades and continents, Monica Datta considers the twentieth century experiment and its outcomes, often set against the testimony of the spritely Lacanian Jean-Louis Katz, whose life becomes entangled with their own as well as that of the Bengali psychoanalyst B.X. Roy.
With precision, range and deep emotional insight, Nebraska is an all-enveloping fictional experience not to be missed. It is a novel of characters who, while deeply separate, respond to the irresolvable questions that make us human.
A Masterful, Time-spanning Doorstopper
—Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture
"A dizzying, occasionally nausea-inducing masterwork that defies categorization or prurient interest . . . The flashes of insight about [Datta's] characters are brilliant, and frightening . . . the depictions of grief in Nebraska b...
Discover more
About the author
Monica Datta is the author of Thieving Sun. Her writing has appeared in The Believer, Conjunctions, The New Inquiry and many other journals. She has received funding from the Divided City/Mellon Foundation, the Faber Arts, Sciences, and Humanities Residency of Catalonia, The Fine Arts Work Center, the Kimmel Harding Center for the Arts, Kundiman, OPERA America and Sewanee Writers’ Conference.
Monica Datta is the author of Thieving Sun. Her writing has appeared in The Believer, Conjunctions, The New Inquiry and many other journals. She has received funding from the Divided City/Mellon Foundation, the Faber Arts, Sciences, and Humanities Residency of Catalonia, The Fine Arts Work Center...
Rate this ebook
Tell us what you think.
Reading information
Smartphones and tablets
Install the Google Play Books app for Android and iPad/iPhone. It syncs automatically with your account and allows you to read online or offline wherever you are.
Laptops and computers
You can listen to audiobooks purchased on Google Play using your computer's web browser.
eReaders and other devices
To read on e-ink devices like Kobo eReaders, you'll need to download a file and transfer it to your device. Follow the detailed Help Center instructions to transfer the files to supported eReaders.
