A BLOODY AFFAIR

For all its macabre overtones, The Ex Daughters of Tolstoy House is about WOMEN TACKLING PATRIARCHY

- —Samyukta Bhowmick

The central conceit of The Ex Daughters of Tolstoy House, Arunima Tenzin Tara's debut novel, is a compelling one—a family of women who have a supernatural ability to absorb blood into their bodies, and how this “gift” is exploited by their relatives to make them complicit in decades of violent crime and murder.