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July 29, 2023

'Quarterlife' tries to make sense of the changes sweeping through the country

- Aditya Mani Jha

Interesting but flawed

In the opening chapter of Devika Rege's debut novel, Quarterlife, Naren Agashe, an NRI working as a financial consultant in Nebraska, is at a coffee shop, avoiding a certain old white man prone to racist homilies. The US is on the eve of its MAGA (Make America Great Again) moment and tensions are running high, so Naren decides to let it slide and vacate his seat for the elderly racist man. Later that day, he visits the Lincoln Zoo and sees a wondrous creature, called a "jaguon". The caged hybrid is one of only two in the world. Born of the accidental mating of a black jaguar and a lion, it is sterile.

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