The art of cultivation
Set in Montreal and Bangalore over a span of 63 years, a smart and emotionally resonant novel captures the life and times of “[g]uarded, imaginative, prickly, sentimental, [and] superstitious” Asha Mohan. A touch pessimistic and fatalistic, this intriguing, complex character holds the view that “the worst possible scenarios have shaped my life always.” —Alexander Sallas reviews Asha in Her Garden, by Anita Rau Badami (Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2026) $36.00 / 9780735274341