Latitudes of Longing is a book that only made it to my list of books to read this year because of the Reading Women 2021 Challenge. The first task on the list is to read a book longlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature which is an award presented each year to a distinguished work of fiction by an Indian author. I went digging through the lists and Latitudes of Longing was both longlisted and shortlisted in 2018, the first year of the award. Latitudes […]
“The possibility of a botanist communicating with a tree was as thrilling as the possibility of a priest chatting with god.”
Latitudes of Longing by Shubhangi Swarup
