In 2006, author Kiran Desai won the Booker Prize for her novel The Inheritance of Loss. For nearly 20 years, the world has been waiting with bated breath for her next novel. Now it’s finally here, it’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, and it’s on the shortlist for the 2025 Booker Prize. Kiran returns to City of Asylum to share this groundbreaking new novel in conversation with Anderson Tepper.