10 Best Books Written by Indian Women That Everyone Should Read

Cousins Anju and Sudha had vastly different upbringings: the former in a well-known upper-caste Calcutta family, and the latter the daughter of the family black sheep. Born the same day, also the very day their fathers died a violent death, the two were inexplicably bonded through early adulthood till Sudha unearths a family secret that tears the two apart. Years later, when tragedy strikes their families once again, they have only one another to turn to. For anyone with a sister—blood or not, you're bound to drop a tear or two on the pages of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Sister of My Heart.