the fuzzy attachments and indecisions of modern love, identity, dislocation, home and belonging all find their incandescence in Anjali Joseph’s Keeping in Touch
– The Week
Her writing illuminates the mundane and mysterious pace of life, the long and slow parts before major transformations that propel characters into greater self-awareness
– Shreya Ila Anasuya, Mint Lounge
An ode to (extra)ordinary lives in the guise of a romance… The cinematic quality of Joseph’s storytelling is unmistakable… everything bears testimony to life
– Ipsita Mishra, Scroll
Not just a love story but an intricate political saga of contemporary times… An outstanding novel. An excellent read
– Jasmine Sandhu Sandhawalia, The Tribune
Bio
Anjali Joseph was born in Bombay. She read English at Trinity College, Cambridge, and did an MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. Saraswati Park, her first novel, won the Desmond Elliott Prize, the Betty Trask Prize and jointly won the Vodafone Crossword Book Award for Fiction in India. Another Country was long listed for the Man Asian Literary Award. The Living was short listed for the DSC Prize. Keeping in Touch, her fourth novel, is a tale of dysfunctional love and a magic lightbulb. It was published in 2021 in India by Context and appeared from Scribe in the UK and the USA in 2022.Press
Interviews
Anjali’s Playlist for Keeping in Touch via Large Hearted Boy
An interview with Write or Die Tribe
Keeping in Touch featured on ABC’s The Bookshelf with Smrit Daniels
Under the gaze of eternity, nothing is that serious : interview with Nawaid Anjum for the Financial Express
