By Priyanka Sarkar

Daisy Rockwell’s Alice Ramsey sees ghosts that lead her on a chase from her family home in America to India and back, helping her banish ghosts of abandonment by her father and neglect by her alcoholic mother. This chase also helps her understand her mother Clare, and the hollowness caused by lack of love in her life. At its heart, the novel can also be read as a love story between Alice and her Indian psychiatrist-turned-husband Ronit Roy, and how they find their happily-ever-after

This isn’t the only taboo love explored in the book . There is bigamy and adultery thrown into the mix, and when a character is snubbed by their American father for homosexuality, it throws into sharp relief the double standards of this world.

We are constantly left wondering whether Ali

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