Mithu Sanyal has written a thrilling book about the life and writing of the English author who was accused of lacking femininity during her lifetime and whose book "Wuthering Heights" was considered dangerous. For Sanyal, daughter of a Polish mother and an Indian father, it was and is a book in which she recognized her own experience of alienation, a book that somehow helped her at almost every important moment in her life and is always with her.
And that, above all, is what this book is about: the miracle of how an over 170-year-old novel offers clear, current, forward-looking answers to all of today’s essential questions about gender, race, class, and ghosts.
