Where Shall We Go This Summer ?

Where Shall We Go This Summer ? – by G. Vaidyanathan is a study guide or critical analysis of the novel Where Shall We Go This Summer? by the original author, Anita Desai, The actual novel Where Shall We Go This Summer? is an intense story of a sensitive, middle-aged woman named Sita, who is pregnant with her fifth child. Feeling a deep sense of disillusionment and unable to cope with the “critical and chaotic modern world” and the hypocrisy of her middle-class existence, she decides not to give birth in the city. Instead, she escapes to the remote Manori Island, a place from her childhood, in a desire to keep the child unborn and find some miracle or meaning in her life. The story explores themes of uncertainty, the search for identity, and the conflict between the modern urban life and the past, simple island life.