Mira had always looked out for her beloved half-sister Joy, nine years younger. But in the wake of a breathtaking betrayal, Mira fled to London to put needed distance between them, though it broke her heart to leave behind her loving father as well. Now Mira is back in Brooklyn, and Joy is pushing for things to be “okay” again—but how could they be? I ate this up: it’s juicy, delicious, atmospheric, and messy in the best way. I queued up the numerous referenced songs and mapped scads of real locations. It shines bright for its minor characters, platonic and romantic love stories (not just the love triangle at its core), literary world setting, and believable exploration of how the sisters seek to move forward. Out June 2. (This is the Modern Mrs Darcy Book Club July 2026 selection.)

From the publisher: "It is the summer of 2015, and Lila De is on the verge of a breakthrough in her career at a prestigious New York publishing house. But when she gets a call from her mother in India, informing her that she's inherited her family’s sprawling estate, she must confront the legacy of an extended family that she thought she left behind sixteen years ago.  Returning to Kolkata reunites Lila with her mother after a decade of estrangement, and then there are her grandmother, aunts, uncles, and cousins, all of whom still live in the house, all of whom resent her sudden inheritance. To make matters more complicated, her first boyfriend seeks her out when she arrives, and her star author—and occasional lover—is suddenly determined to make things serious. As Lila tries to come to terms with both past and present, long-suppressed secrets from her family emerge, culminating in an act of shocking violence, and she must finally reckon with her inherited custom of keeping everything under the surface. "