Shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize 2020 and praised as “astonishing” by Peter Frankopan, Small Days and Nights is a luminous, deeply human novel about transformation, family, and the fragile moments that shape our lives.
Grace, escaping her failing marriage, returns to Pondicherry to cremate her mother, only to inherit a life she never expected. A pink house with blue shutters, a long-lost sister named Lucia, the ever-faithful village housekeeper Mallika, a wry Auntie Kavitha, and a steadily multiplying litter of puppies—all become part of her fragile new existence.
