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Nebraska, July 2026
Hardcover / e-Book

NEBRASKA
By: Monica Datta

Astra House
July 2026
On Sale: June 23, 2026
480 pages
ISBN: 1662603061
EAN: 9781662603068
Kindle: B0FHJS5FHX
Hardcover / e-Book
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Women's Fiction Family Life

Anna Chatterjee has just been released from prison. Her husband, Prabir, has arrived to take her home and found her already gone; their flighty and artistic grown children, Neal and Nina are left to navigate the fallout both from Anna's disappearance and the trauma that splintered their lives years earlier. But as the story ricochets between past and present, the question looms: Where is Anna now?

As the story moves between decades and continents, Monica Datta considers the twentieth century experiment and its outcomes, often set against the testimony of the spritely Lacanian Jean-Louis Katz, whose life becomes entangled with their own as well as that of the Bengali psychoanalyst B.X. Roy.

With precision, range and deep emotional insight, Nebraska is an all-enveloping fictional experience not to be missed. It is a novel of characters who, while deeply separate, respond to the irresolvable questions that make us human.