What’s trending or not in our bookshelves this week
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What’s trending or not in our bookshelves this week

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The Plot: By Jean Hanff Korelitz, Faber, 336 pages, $28 A one-book-wonder writer ends up teaching a creative writing course at a mid-tier American college, where one of his students tells him he has an “unbeatable” plot—the kind that will make any book, even a badly written one, race to the top of best-seller lists and get made into a movie by an A-list Hollywood director. Aai and I: By Mamta Nainy and Sanket Pethkar, Pickle Yolk Books, 32 pages, ₹350 Mamta Nainy’s heartwarming picture book, beautifully illustrated by Sanket Pethkar, is about a little girl—the “I” of the title—who can’t wait to welcome her Aai home after several weeks. Broke To Break Through: By Harish Damodaran, Penguin Viking, 224 pages, ₹699 Years before multinational firms realised the potential of “Bharat’s next billion”, a gritty 21-year-old from Tamil Nadu’s semi-arid Virudhunagar district decided to manufacture “ice candies” in rural India. Until his Arun brand came along, ice cream was considered a treat only for city folk, and R. Chandramogan cannily sold this aspiration, branding Arun as “ice cream from Madras” and opening stand-alone parlours.

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