From NYT’s 10 Best Books of 2025: A.O. Scott on Kiran Desai’s New Novel
Inge Morath/Magnum Photos When a writer is praised for having a sense of place, it usually means one specific place — a postage stamp of familiar ground rendered in loving, knowing detail. But Kiran Desai, in her latest novel, “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny,” has a sense of places. This 670-page book, about the…

