Choice Audiobook

An ingenious devastating explosive novel about the ramifications of choice from one of the most original and talented authors working today NPR

How ought one to live This is the question that obsesses Londonbased 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 BengalBangladesh 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