Emily’s Reviews > Latitudes of Longing > Status Update

Only a few chapters in, and this has already made my list of the best books of 2020. With its luminous first sentence to its depiction of sounds that are an “elemental as silence,” it’s brilliant evocation of ghosts (and goats), and the powerful descriptions of love along lines of latitude, I can tell Shubhangi Swarup’s words will haunt me.