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Longlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize
As binge-worthy as a miniseries, this lover's knot of a novel delves into the entangled lives of its ensemble cast.
Estela struggles in her relationships and in her professional life due to the loss of her brother at a young age. Ash, Estela’s estranged best friend, loves Estela unrequitedly and must come to terms with being bisexual in the context of his traditional Indian immigrant family. Ophélie works through PTSD and the emotionally abusive romantic relationship she was in as a teen. Roman is an academic whose pain post-divorce leads him to seek out younger women—his students—in the #MeToo era.
In her signature spare, poetic style, Bindu Suresh unfurls their lives and the relationships that drive them together and tear them apart. Travelling from Montreal to Ottawa to Toronto – and as far as New York, Beijing, and Buenos Aires – and spanning the first two decades of the twenty-first century, The Road Between Us is an episodic novel that explores why we make the decisions we do and the effects those decisions have on 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.