The Chasing Iamb

In these stories, families are seen in their whole corrosive element, and the poor and disenfranchised are returned to history—in language that’s affecting, tender, unexpected, like translations from a tongue infinitely superior to our own. Mridula Koshy's writing is deeply attentive and fearless, the work of an extraordinary Indian moralist with an unmistakable gift. -- Jeet Thayil

In brooding, otherworldly prose, Mridula Koshy tells us the stories other writers overlook, or do not wish to tell: the household thoughts that must always remain silent, the disavowed dramas of the city, the heartbreaking proximity of opposite emotions.  "If It Is Sweet" is a book of savage, beautiful writing, whose empathy and curiosity flood over the usual barricades of the imagination – and remind us, indeed,what real writing is.-- Rana Dasgupta

Mridula Koshy's voice is fresh and new, animated by a love of language and people that makes these stories remarkably strange and yet disconcertingly familiar.-- Siddhartha Deb