By Maulee Senapati

Rochelle Potkar’s The D’Costa Family is a novel of quiet detonations. It dismantles the sentimental myth of the family—especially the joint family—to expose its volatile, often coercive architecture. A masterstroke of quiet disruption, an audacious, intimate excavation of a Goan Catholic household, where the fine-meshed threads of the personal and political are intricately woven into the fabric of daily life.