Between Festivals is a quiet literary novel about family, marriage, and the invisible weight of becoming the person everyone depends on.
Samir Pandey has spent most of his life learning how to be the good son — disciplined, dependable, careful not to need too much from anyone. In Delhi, he has built the kind of life that looks successful from the outside: a stable career, a thoughtful wife, a small apartment arranged with intention, morning marathon runs that begin at exactly 5:15.
Then his younger brother comes to stay for ten days.
What begins as an ordinary family visit slowly unsettles something inside him. In the ease between his wife and brother, in late-night calls from home, in boxes of books sent by his father from Bhubaneswar, Samir is forced to confront the quiet architecture of the life he has built — and the person he may have disappeared from becoming.
Set between Delhi and Bhubaneswar, between duty and desire, between who we inherit and who we choose to be, Between Festivals is an intimate novel about memory, masculinity, marriage, and the fragile ways people try to love one another without fully knowing how.
For readers who love reflective, emotionally layered fiction in the tradition of Arundhati Roy, Marilynne Robinson, and Kiran Desai.