About the Book: Antara Mukherjee’s Beyond Our Births is a moving literary coming-of-age novel about identity, belonging, displacement and the search for home. Abandoned near the India–Bangladesh border at five, Nimki finds refuge with a Kolkata family but struggles to find genuine acceptance and a stable sense of identity. As she grows from girlhood into womanhood, she navigates class, family, borders and the painful realities of being displaced. Spanning nearly a decade, this evocative bildungsroman challenges conventional ideas of nationality, blood ties and belonging while tracing one woman’s difficult journey towards self-discovery and freedom.