What We Kept

Fifteen years. Two children. One quiet certainty, the marriage is over.

Priya and Vikram Mehta's Bangalore marriage did not end in a single night. It ended the way most things end  slowly, in the accumulation of small distances. Told in alternating voices across a mutual consent divorce, What We Kept asks what two people can preserve when they finally stop pretending. A novel about grief that is clean, children who see everything, and the life that becomes possible when you are honest enough to begin again.