NYT Notable Books 2021 - Nonfiction

 

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1. Better to have gone: love, death, and the quest for utopia in Auroville

Book cover for Better to have gone.
Author:
Kapur, Akash
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Hamden/Miller Adult Nonfiction 3rd Floor
954.8209/KAP
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"A spellbinding story about love, faith, the search for utopia -- and the often devastating cost of idealism. It's the late 1960s, and two lovers converge on an arid patch of earth in South India. John Walker is the handsome scion of a powerful East Coast American family. Diane Maes is a beautiful hippie from Belgium. They have come to build a new world -- Auroville, an international utopian community for thousands of people. Their faith is strong,...