Choice /
Mukherjee, Neel,
Choice / Neel Mukherjee - 297 pages ; 24 cm
"'How ought one to live?' This is the question that obsesses London-based publisher Ayush, driving him to question every act of consumption. He embarks on a radical experiment in his own life and the lives of those connected to him: his practical economist husband; their twins; and even the authors he edits and publishes. One of those authors, a mysterious M. N. Opie, writes a story about a young academic involved in a car accident that causes her life to veer in an unexpected direction. Another author, an economist, describes how the gift of a cow to an impoverished family on the West Bengal-Bangladesh border sets them on a startling path to tragedy. Together, these connected narratives raise the question: How free are we really to make our own choices? In a scathing, compassionate quarrel with the world, Neel Mukherjee confronts our fundamental assumptions about economics, race, appropriation, and the tangled ethics of contemporary life."--
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Animal welfare--Fiction.
Refugees--Fiction.
Women college teachers--Fiction.
Free will and determinism--Fiction.
Authors--Fiction.
Book editors--Fiction.
Gay men--Family relationships--United States--Fiction.
London (England)--Fiction.
Social problem fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Novels.
Gay fiction.
LGBTQ+.
Choice / Neel Mukherjee - 297 pages ; 24 cm
"'How ought one to live?' This is the question that obsesses London-based publisher Ayush, driving him to question every act of consumption. He embarks on a radical experiment in his own life and the lives of those connected to him: his practical economist husband; their twins; and even the authors he edits and publishes. One of those authors, a mysterious M. N. Opie, writes a story about a young academic involved in a car accident that causes her life to veer in an unexpected direction. Another author, an economist, describes how the gift of a cow to an impoverished family on the West Bengal-Bangladesh border sets them on a startling path to tragedy. Together, these connected narratives raise the question: How free are we really to make our own choices? In a scathing, compassionate quarrel with the world, Neel Mukherjee confronts our fundamental assumptions about economics, race, appropriation, and the tangled ethics of contemporary life."--
1324075015 9781324075011
Animal welfare--Fiction.
Refugees--Fiction.
Women college teachers--Fiction.
Free will and determinism--Fiction.
Authors--Fiction.
Book editors--Fiction.
Gay men--Family relationships--United States--Fiction.
London (England)--Fiction.
Social problem fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Novels.
Gay fiction.
LGBTQ+.