Small Talk reviews Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan’s (The Compulsive Confessor) debut novel:

Arshi is possibly a prototype of a new kind of young Indian woman – casual about a lot of things taboo to a previous generation – smoking, drinking, sex; thinking of herself as cosmopolitan and global – a night club or bar is her most natural setting and John Mayer and Kajra Re both find equal resonance with her. Yet at a fundamental level, there is little modern about her. She obsesses about her relationships and comes across as very vulnerable and needy when it comes to men – “They never worry, these boys we love. They keep us on tenterhooks, just by their unconcern. We spend our days agonizing over them; at nights