A BAD CHARACTER by Deepti Kapoor - Spotlight

 

Before Deepti Kapoor wrote the current New York Times bestselling novel, AGE OF VICE (Knopf) which has been chosen a "Good Morning America" book club book, Kapoor wrote A BAD CHARACTER (Vintage) where there are no happy endings, but a survivor's edge of triumph.

The narrator of A BAD CHARACTER is “twenty and untouched” when her mother dies. Sent by her absentee father to live with a relative in a modest New Delhi apartment, she is ill-equipped to resist the allure of the rich and rebellious young man who approaches her one day at a cafe. 

He is a few years older, and from a different social class, but they both yearn to break free of tradition. As they drive around Delhi—eating, making love, falling apart—he introduces her to an India that she never knew existed, and will never be able to forget. 

Deepti Kapoor was born in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, and grew up in Bombay, Bahrain and Dehradun. In 1997 she went to the University of Delhi to study journalism and later completed an MA in Social Psychology. 

She spent the next decade working for various publications, driving around the city, finding stories and learning its streets. She now lives in Goa.