Manil Suri reads from "The City of Devi"

Mumbai has emptied under the threat of nuclear annihilation, yet Sarita searches for the last pomegranate in the city, convinced that the fruit holds the key to reuniting her with her husband. Searching for his own lover in the midst of this turmoil is Jaz. As Jaz and Sarita are inexorably drawn to Devi ma, the patron goddess who has reputedly appeared in person to save her city, the novel upends assumptions of politics, religion, and sex, offering a terrifying glimpse of the end of the world.