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“There hasn’t been a great literary work about contemporary India in the last decade, save for Suketu Mehta’s [Maximum City], which is non-fiction… Every Indian is writing a novel right now. No one wants to revise. ”
The main character in Karan Mahajan’s novel, Family Planning, is a man who is only attracted to his wife when she is pregnant. “He liked the smooth, alien bulge of her stomach or the tripled heartbeat when they made love, silently, shifting over each other.” The down side, for this family at least, living as they do in New Delhi, is that the byproduct of pregnancy-for-arousal is an enormous family; not to mention a complicated web of lies. Family Planning is Maud Newton‘s first selection for NPR’s Books We Like.
See also The Rumpus interview with Karan Mahajan.
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