'Tashan Mehta is one of the most gifted, original writers you'll ever read. Mad Sisters of Esi shows us, again, her skill with both the cosmic and the deeply personal. All of it is magical.'

--Samit Basu, author of Chosen Spirits and The City Inside

'Think of Elena Ferrante, but set in a magical, fantasy world. Blurring boundaries between genres, Tashan Mehta's Mad Sisters of Esi takes on from where the brilliant The Liar's Weave left off, and is a remarkable second novel from a very gifted writer.'

--Gautam Bhatia, author of The Wall and The Horizon

'Tashan Mehta shows herself to be a contemporary successor of Italo Calvino with the magnificent Mad Sisters of Esi, a tale of tales wrapped in iridescent spacetime, an infinitely nested creation myth, a portal and a ship and a campfire woven of prose.'

--Indrapramit Das, author of The Devourers

'Sometimes a fantasy comes along so startling and so keenly felt that it changes the way you look at the world for the better. Wonderfully immersive, deeply pleasurable and utterly original, Mad Sisters of Esi is a classic in the making and the best book I've read in years.'

--Helen Marshall, author of The Migration and winner of the World Fantasy Award