A Good Family by Pallavi Gopinath Aney traces, across decades and cities, the lives of three generations of Indian women shaped by love, silence, and the weight of expectation.
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About A Good Family
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From Chitra, uprooted from Kerala to a Delhi she never learns to call home, to her daughters Shuchi and Yamini, and finally to Tara, who grows up carrying what remains unspoken, this is a story of what families build—and what they quietly break. As respectability, duty, and denial shape their choices, each woman must confront the cost of belonging to a family, to a place, and to herself.
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A Good Family is a deeply observed, unflinching portrait of how love, trauma, and silence echo across generations. Published by India Penguin Enterprise (Penguin Random House India), this 376-page paperback (ISBN 9789377303464) is scheduled for September 2026 with an India MRP of ₹599. Pallavi Gopinath Aney is a lawyer and writer whose first novel, Kopi, Puffs & Dreams, was shortlisted for the Epigram Books Fiction Prize. Readers of literary fiction about family, migration and women’s inner lives will find this saga resonant and carefully crafted.
