Tripathi beautifully weaves together themes of family, belonging, longing, and mental health to explore love, hope and reconciliation. It's a moving reminder of the bonds that endure despite life's challenges.

Forty-five, single and tired of living entirely for everyone else, Akhila boards a train to Kanyakumari alone. In the ladies’ compartment, five women share the stories of the lives they have lived and the choices they have made, giving Akhila new ways to think about independence, happiness and what a woman might choose for herself.

Sisters Myung and Laleh live inside the mysterious whale of babel until Myung leaves in search of something more. What follows moves through shapeshifting islands, myths, dreams and collective memory in a wildly imaginative story about sisterhood, belief and the stories we inherit, change and tell again.

Independence follows the lives of three sisters during Partition, exploring love, resilience and the strength they draw from one another. It's a poignant celebration of sisterhood in extraordinary circumstances.

Minhas writes a sharp, unsentimental Karachi, where a girl from a cramped government colony claws her way toward the billboard she's dreamed of since childhood. It is the perfect book to read in a single restless sitting.