Choice
[New York] : W. W. Norton & Company, 2024.
Format: Book
Description: 297 pages ; 24 cm
"How ought one to live?" This is the question that obsesses London-based 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 Bengal-Bangladesh 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.
Subjects:
Animal welfare -- Fiction.
Refugees -- Fiction.
Women college teachers -- Fiction.
Free will and determinism -- Fiction.
Authors -- Fiction.
Book editors -- Fiction.
Gay men -- Family relationships -- United States -- Fiction.
London (England) -- Fiction.
Animal welfare -- Fiction.
Refugees -- Fiction.
Women college teachers -- Fiction.
Free will and determinism -- Fiction.
Authors -- Fiction.
Book editors -- Fiction.
Gay men -- Family relationships -- United States -- Fiction.
London (England) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
1324075015
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
Main (Downtown) | Fiction | Just Ordered | |
F Mukherjee | Ballentine Indoors | New, Fiction | Out (Due: 5/8/2024) |
Cooper (Forest Acres) | Fiction | Just Ordered | |
F Mukherjee | Sandhills Indoors | New, Fiction | Out (Due: 5/18/2024) |