Janika Oza Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Janika Oza

The intimacy and the power of the love between friends and family members in this novel breaks and mends my heart each time I turn to it, which is often.

Janika Oza

What makes the book pulse with life is not the grand sweep of its ideas but the tenderness in its details... Unexpected friendships abound, but they are never frivolous; in each one, Chan conjures the transformative possibilities of love when we allow others inside.

Janika Oza

This is the novel in Lahiri's oeuvre that is least talked about, but it's without a doubt my favorite. Set during the Naxalite uprising in India, it is unapologetically political, deeply anchored to place, and attuned to the painful, ongoing work of forgiveness.

Janika Oza

Verghese's third novel is a beautiful saga about Indian twin brothers coming of age in Ethiopia amid political turmoil. It's a story about betrayal, the bonds between family, and what it takes to heal.

Janika Oza

…this slim novel is about two sons of Trinidadian immigrants learning to survive, love and dream in a community and city that doesn't see them. There is an aching wound at the heart of the novel, but it is also replete with joy and tenderness on every page.

Janika Oza

…Danticat's book blends memoir and essay to examine the necessity of bearing witness, writing against silencing, and what it means to be an artist in exile. "Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously," she writes — a call to action that I will always return to.

Janika Oza

A novel about displacement, making home, and the ways we come back to one another... The way Alyan fractures the narrative across time and place, while deeply rooting us in the hearts of one family, was an inspiration for my novel.