Sonil travels to the mythic and fantastical island of Pi, just off the coast of India, to recover from a lingering illness. She has very little knowledge of her American father and struggles to reach out to her emotionally distant mother, but her solace comes with first love when she engages in an affair with an American man twice her age who is looking for the innocence of India. Gracefully wrought, Inheritance is an evocative novel of awakening.
Characters leap off the pages and into our hearts. . . .
She graduated from Vassar College and received her M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the author of the widely acclaimed novel The Journey .