THE LONELINESS OF SONIA AND SUNNY (KIRAN DESAI), reviewed by Ima Moorthy

Avert loneliness by being an armchair traveller this winter. Whizz from snowy Vermont to where three holy rivers merge in Allahabad; from New York through Delhi smog to the foothills of the Himalayas; from riptides in Goa through sinister Venetian canals to the Mexican desert.