Description

Sanjana Satyananda is trying to recover her life. It’s been a year since she walked out on her husband, a struggling actor named Killian, at a commune in India, after a disagreement about whether to have children. Now, Sanjana is struggling to resurrect her busted anthropology dissertation and crashing at her annoyingly perfect sister’s while her similarly well-adjusted peers obsess over marriages, mortgages, and motherhood. Sanjana needs to move forward-and finalize her divorce, ASAP.

There’s just one problem: Killian is missing. As Sanjana tries to track him down, she’s bombarded with unnerving calls from women seeking her advice on pregnancy and fertility. Soon, Sanjana comes face to face-literally-with what her life might have been if she’d chosen parenthood. And the road not taken turns out to be wilder, stranger, and more tempting than she imagined.

A darkly funny, genre-bending novel about the dilemmas of procreation, pregnancy, and parenting, Goddess Complex is both a twist-filled psychological thriller and a feminist satire of our age of GirlBosses turned Self Care influencers, optimization cults, social media mommy gurus, egg-freezing crazes, procreative peer pressure, and general uterine madness

About the Author

Sanjena Sathian was raised in the US by Indian immigrant parents. She’s a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Clarion Writers’ Workshop, and has also worked as a journalist based in San Francisco and in Mumbai. Her award-winning short fiction appears in ConjunctionsBoulevardJoylandSalt Hill and The Master’s Review. She’s written nonfiction for The New YorkerThe New York Times, The Washington Post, Food and Wine and more. She has taught creative writing to high school, college and graduate students in Iowa, Alaska and New Zealand, and she recently founded the Bombay Writers’ Workshop.

Additional information

Dimensions 21 × 14 × 1 cm
Binding

Paperback

ISBN

978-9365693539

Language

English

Pages

252

Publication date

16 May 2025

Publisher

‎ HarperCollins India

Writer

Sanjena Sathian

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