Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville by Akash Kapur

Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville

Akash Kapur

352 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography memoir religion emotional medium-paced
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From Whiting Award winner Akash Kapur, a transfixing and deeply researched masterwork that blends the investigation into an unsolved family mystery with a fascinating portrait of Auroville--a Utopian community on the coast of southern India. As a...

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Moods

informative 82%
reflective 64%
challenging 41%
dark 41%
emotional 41%
adventurous 29%
hopeful 23%
sad 23%
mysterious 17%
inspiring 11%
funny 5%
tense 5%

Pace

medium 88%
slow 11%

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