Title: Notes on extinction
First published: 2001
Description: "Will Mendelsohn is a modern-day Charles Darwin whose first book has made him wealthy. In order to begin his magnum opus, a massive work on extinction, he sets off on a worldwide research trip. He makes a special visit to Assam, a state in northeast India, so he can spend time with his mother's friend Mim, a Holocaust survivor in frail health. But once he meets Mim's enigmatic neighbor, a married expatriate screenwriter named Grace Tagore, Will's brief stop turns into an extended stay.

As he and Grace are drawn together by their haunted pasts into a transformative affair, Assam erupts in political turmoil, setting off an irrevocable chain of events that forever alters their lives."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Fiction, Terminally ill, Americans, Female friendship, Women screenwriters, Plantation life, Separated people, Fiction, psychological, Friendship, fiction, India, fiction
Places: Assam (India), India
LC classification: PS3554.E1743 A94 2001