Literary love stories are vanishingly rare these days, and The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is that even more precious thing: a love story that's also profound, sparkling, funny, exquisitely written, and that teaches us how to live in full-throated exultation for the astonishments of this world. It has so many urgent things to sayabout the costs and consolations of art, about power and class and race and freedomthat reading the book feels like a long conversation at night with your most interesting and ardent friend -- Lauren Groff The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is a spectacular literary achievement. I wanted to pack a little suitcase and stay inside this book forever -- Ann Patchett I had been dying to read a gorgeously written, sweeping novel like this. Desais taledevastating, lyrical, and deeply romanticgrapples with the complexities of artistic ambition, migration, loss, love, and confronts a central question: What does it mean to belong? How does one reach ever toward the future when haunted by the past? This poignant novelrich with culture, heartbreak, and hopewas an unmitigated joy to read -- Khaled Hosseini Kiran Desai reveals the breadth and depth of time, how it weighs on families and nations caught within the drama of history. She captures this with a rare and astute sensitivity that, no matter her subject, casts a light on our present -- Hisham Matar A powerful novel by a writer strong enough to pull back together worlds that are being pulled apart -- Mohsin Hamid A masterpiece . . . Desais trust in her own process pays off, as vignettes of just a page or two intersect with the novels central obsessionslove, family, writing, the role of the U.S. in the Indian imagination, the dangers faced by a woman on her ownand come to a perfectly satisfying close . . . magnificent * Kirkus (starred review) * The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny achieves the ultimate of what a book should do: carry us away into other peoples lives, thinking as they think, feeling as they feel, until it comes around and shows us to ourselves. Grand, magnificent, intimate, more than wonderful, this is a novel you will hold close to your heart. I certainly did. I cannot recommend it enough -- Andrew Sean Greer A novel from Kiran Desai is always going to be an event, but The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny will be seismic, trust me. Brilliant doesnt begin to describe this novels profound illuminative powers -- Junot Dķaz The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is both epic and intimate. This is a story of two young people, and a story of families and belonging. That Kiran Desai also finds a way to deftly thread unflinching questions about the imagination and creativity through these immersive pages is brilliant evidence of her formidable and incomparable gifts as a writer. What a magnificent achievement, made all the more rare for its compulsive readability. I could not put this book down -- Maaza Mengiste
