How do I want to live? What fulfills me? Is a fulfilling life even possible given the crises the world is facing? Do I want a child? Shortly before her thirtieth birthday, the narrator is grappling with many questions. She works in a café and has dreamed for years of finally writing a novel. Instead, however, she begins to describe the people she encounters there. She imagines how different her life could be if she had a luxurious apartment with a skylight like her friend Janu. And she observes other women her age, one after the other, slipping into lifestyles that strike her as disturbingly conservative. When her sister's marriage falls apart and she arrives with her child, her own life changes overnight. The novel explores the tension between what one longs for and what is possible—the search for a life that truly fits. It traces the impact of a childhood as a child of divorce and describes the quiet realization that caregiving can take many forms. A touching and multifaceted story about womanhood in our time. New product