Madhuri Vijay’s debut novel The Far Field (2019) transports its reader to modern day India.  This novel is a confession by thirty-year-old Shalini.  She self-consciously tells her story as she leaves her native Bangalore in search of one man from Kashmir who touched her childhood.  Her journey is a sort of coming-of-age even though she is in her mid-twenties when she sets off.  Intertwined with her travels, Shalini reflects on her childhood and the lives of her mother and father.  Ultimately her trip leads Shalini to the poverty, community, and brutality found in conflict-rife Kashmir.