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Longlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize
A lover's knot of a novel that spans continents and decades, The Road Between Us delves into the entangled lives of its ensemble cast.
Estela, a lawyer, struggles professionally after a deep childhood loss and an ill-advised undergraduate dalliance. Ash is a diplomat posted to Buenos Aires and Beijing who wants what he can’t have. Ophélie, a nurse, makes a grievous medical error that alters the course of her life. And Roman is an academic whose careless sexual escapades after a painful divorce lead to even more painful consequences.
Tense, poetic, and as binge-worthy as a miniseries, The Road Between Us explores why we make the decisions we do, and how those decisions affect the people we love.
"An ideal summer literary read that clips along in episodic bursts as its smart, flawed characters navigate love, sex and regret within a feminist narrative sensibility... beautifully written, a poetic, episodic page-turner."—Winnipeg Free Press
"Compulsively readable... There are loads of tough and subtle lesson in Suresh’s book, but most of all, The Road Between Us is a complicated tangle of people and the ways that they cross paths through time, some more damaging than others."—The Miramichi Reader
"Shifting perspectives throw a group of interconnected people in and out of one another’s orbits as they resist and capitulate to their impulses: romantic, self-destructive, and otherwise."—Literary Review of Canada
"The complex ties between a far-flung group of high-achieving friends over the course of the 21st century is the canvas of this engrossing group portrait."—Zoomer
“Bindu Suresh is a master of craft. She reels you in from the first page and then keeps you entranced with poetic yet stark prose that delicately and unapologetically reveals the inner truths of her characters. A beautiful and soulful read.”—Zalika Reid-Benta, author of River Mumma and Frying Plantain
Bindu Suresh is the author of the novella 26 Knots (2019). A former journalist, she has written hundreds of articles for various newspapers, including the Montreal Gazette and the Buenos Aires Herald. She has a degree in literature from Columbia University and a medical degree from McGill University, and currently works full-time as a pediatrician. She currently lives in Montreal with her husband, her seven-year-old daughter, and her five-year-old son.