Nebraska
by Monica Datta
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Pub Date Jun 23 2026 | Archive Date Jun 09 2026
Astra Publishing House | Astra House
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Description
Anna Chatterjee has just been released from prison. Her husband, Prabir, has arrived to take her home and found her already gone; their flighty and artistic grown children, Neal and Nina are left to navigate the fallout both from Anna's disappearance and the trauma that splintered their lives years earlier. But as the story ricochets between past and present, the question looms: Where is Anna now?
As the story moves between decades and continents, Monica Datta considers the twentieth century experiment and its outcomes, often set against the testimony of the spritely Lacanian Jean-Louis Katz, whose life becomes entangled with their own as well as that of the Bengali psychoanalyst B.X. Roy.
With precision, range and deep emotional insight, Nebraska is an all-enveloping fictional experience not to be missed. It is a novel of characters who, while deeply separate, respond to the irresolvable questions that make us human.
Advance Praise
"Astonishing. A marvel of storytelling. Monica Datta's Nebraska is made of the stuff of great and uncompromising ambition. An exploration of a family enduring the oceanic and the unthinkable, with meandering byways into everything imaginable, from Lacanian psychoanalysis to postcolonial architecture to Icelandic sheepdogs. A novel at once ferociously intelligent, humane, and bursting at the seams with splendor." —Shobha Rao, author of Indian Country
"Datta has designed an intricate labyrinth that lures you in, while exposing unreachable corners of the human psyche. Compelling!" —Ledia Xhoga, author of Misinterpretation
Marketing Plan
MARKETING AND PUBLICITY PLANS • Book club outreach • Fiction awards campaign • Magazine profile of breakout author • Serious review coverage in national outlets as well as smaller literary journals • New York City bookstore launch • Early excerpt in a major national outlet • Targeted bookseller outreach • Pitch for interviews on podcasts, radio, and in print • Influencer outreach and giveaways
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781662603068 |
| PRICE | $29.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 464 |
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Featured Reviews
A complex and beautiful story. Anna gets out of prison and then disappears leaving her kids and husband behind and what ensues is how the family copes with her disappearance and the circumstances that led them there. Loved the past and present timeline to help explain the history. This is truly a human story. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
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