Onam in a Nightie: Stories from a Kerala Quarantine, Anjana Menon religion read it alongside Len Vlahos’s

read it alongside Len Vlahos’s The Scar Boys or Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor & Park

and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country

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Onam in a Nightie: Stories from a Kerala Quarantine, Anjana Menon religion read it alongside Len Vlahos’sIn India's tropical paradise, stands a town wrapped around a giant roundabout, where a canny caretaker with a French connection holds sway. Vying for his attention are two competing neighbours. Appu holds lessons for the living but Maya cares only for the dead. And a gastronome dog plays ball girl to tennis loving nuns. At the centre is an imposing temple so ancient that no one knows exactly when it was built. Here, even a tiny railway station has set