Don't Let Him Know

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In a boxy apartment building in an American university town, Romola Mitra, a young bride, anxiously awaits her first letter from home in India. When she accidentally opens the wrong letter, it changes her life. Decades later, her son Amit finds the letter and thinks he has discovered his mothers secret. But secrets have their own secrets sometimes, and a way of following their keepers.

Moving from adolescent rooftop games to adult encounters in gay bars, from hair salons in Calcutta to McDonalds drive-thrus in California, this is an unforgettable story about family, the struggle between having what we want and doing what we feel we must and the sacrifices we make for those we love.

Reviews

This artful novel is a true delight. It dances across continents and through time * Daily Mail *
With a tender yet exacting gaze, Sandip Roy creates a mesmerizing tableau of family life in an era of transformation, migration, and upheaval * Tahmima Anam, author of A Golden Age *
A believable and wonderfully written story of secrets between the generations * The Times *
Sandip Roys compelling characters strive to negotiate the distances between continents, generations and sexualities; through a dazzling mosaic of narrative snapshots Roy captures the arcs of entire lifetimes * Manil Suri *
Gripping and surprising Captures the heart of modern Indian life and is masterful at demonstrating the mystery behind all families * Stylist *
A story rich with the exhilaration of the future, and heavy with the tug of the past. I loved it * Neil Bartlett *

Author Bio

SANDIP ROY is a writer and journalist based in Kolkata. He has been a long-time commentator on National Public Radios Morning Edition, one of the most listened-to radio programmes in the US, and has a weekly radio postcard for public radio in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has been Senior Editor at the popular Indian news portal Firstpost.com and editor with New America Media. Sandip has won several awards for journalism and contributed to various an thologies including Storywallah!, Contours of the Heart, Because I Have a Voice: Queer Politics in India,Out! Stories from the New Queer India, New California Writing 2011 and The Phobic and the Erotic: The Politics of Sexualities in Contemporary India. Dont Let Him Know has been shortlisted for the Tata Literature Live! First Book Award for Fiction, and longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, the Frank OConnor Short Story Award and the Green Carnation Prize.

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