The Middle Finger

Never afraid of taking risks, Saikat Majumdar has taken his place as one the most striking novelists writing today.
– SHASHI DESHPANDE
In prose of spare elegance and understated precision, Saikat Majumdar explores an ethical conflict around mentorship, as well as a welter of questions around creative compromise, cultural privilege and entitlement, including the insidious pressures on poets to be 'snarky and snappy'. Here is a storyteller whose language is writerly yet beautifully unmannered, supple enough to combine irony with gentleness, finely-modulated observation with axiomatic ease.
– ARUNDHATHI SUBRAMANIUM
A novel of love and friendship, pleasure, pain and jealousy.
– R. RAJ RAO
What are the ethical boundaries of friendship and intimacy between a student and a teacher?
Megha, a young writing lecturer in New Jersey struggles to finish her thesis and find full-time employment even as she begins to find...