**A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of *The Lowland* and *Interpreter of Maladies* --her first in nearly a decade--about a woman questioning her place in the world, wavering between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. A Most Anticipated Novel of 2021 from **• ***Buzzfeed*** • *** O, The Oprah Magazine ***• *** TIME ***• *** Vulture ***• *** Vogue ***• *** LitHub ***• *** Harper's Bazaar*** ** **Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. In the arc of one year, an unnamed narrator in an unnamed city, in the middle of her life 's journey, realizes that she's lost her way. The city she calls home acts as a companion and interlocutor: