VERBATIM: Kiran Desai on the gift of loneliness

VERBATIM: Kiran Desai on the gift of loneliness

Earlier this month, we spoke with Kiran Desai, author of The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, a novel that took her two decades to write and at one point spanned 5,000 pages in drafts, until she began to focus on her subject — global loneliness — through the lens of an unresolved romance. It’s one of the best novels in modern memory, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize (which she won for her last novel, The Inheritance of Loss), and is one of tho…

Kiran Desai on the gift of loneliness – International Psychoanalysis

Click Here to View: VERBATIM: Kiran Desai on the gift of loneliness: The author of “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny” on the curse and blessing of being alone, her 20-year road to making a masterpiece, and how her Indian uncles tell her to use ChatGPT on her writing by Anand Giridharadas, Kiran Desai, and Leigh Haber on the Ink Substack on December 24, 2025. ∙ Preview