A powerful coming—of—age story.Iris is making a train journey in India for the first time with her boyfriend. When she steps down off the train for a bottle of water at Shambala Junction, she finds herself stranded and alone. She becomes caught up in the drama of stallholder Aman’s battle to recover his lost child and this tests her courage and beliefs about who she is and what she cares for. Along the way, she is seduced by India, in all its vivacity and charm. —Winner of the Virginia Prize for Fiction