Neel Mukherjee

For this, I am indebted to my friend, Marie Rutkoski, forever. It all started when she pressed a copy of Peter Cameron’s latest book, Some Day This Pain Will Be Useful To You , a young adult novel, into my hands last October in New York and said, ‘Read this’, much in the way a sailor throwing a line of rope to a man overboard shouts, ‘Grab this’. And grab I did; the consequent saving followed as the night the day. There was only one thing to do: search out everything he’s ever written. So far, I’ve read an early novel, effortless, glitchless and pellucid, hiding vast emotional terrains under its unruffled, luminous prose, called The Weekend. And The City of Your Final Destination is waiting on my bedside table. I shall post a longer appreciation in my Notebooks section soon.