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A Good Family | A Literary Saga Spanning Three Generations of Indian Women

A Good Family | A Literary Saga Spanning Three Generations of Indian Women

Pallavi Gopinath Aney
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Across decades and cities, A Good Family traces the lives of three generations of Indian women shaped by love, silence, and the weight of expectation.

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. A Good Family is a deeply observed, unflinching portrait of how love, trauma, and silence echo across generations.

Imprint: India Penguin Enterprise

Published: Sep/2026

ISBN: 9789377303464 (Paperback)

Length : 376 Pages

MRP : ₹599.00

A Good Family | A Literary Saga Spanning Three Generations of Indian Women

Pallavi Gopinath Aney

Across decades and cities, A Good Family traces the lives of three generations of Indian women shaped by love, silence, and the weight of expectation.

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. A Good Family is a deeply observed, unflinching portrait of how love, trauma, and silence echo across generations.

Buying Options
Paperback / Hardback

Pallavi Gopinath Aney

Pallavi Gopinath Aney is a lawyer and a writer. Originally from Delhi and Kerala, she has called Singapore home since 2006. Her first novel, Kopi, Puffs & Dreams, was shortlisted in Singapore for the Epigram Books Fiction Prize 2021 and published later that year.

A Good Family is her second novel.

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