Glass Bottom

‘Glass Bottom is a beautiful thing; subtle but powerful; prescient; written with great care and elegance and such sensitivity to the richness and strangeness of life’ Sara Baume, author of Seven Steeples and one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists 2023

‘Wondrous, mesmerizing and unique. Sonali Prasad has written a book that is both sensitive and vast―reaching far and wide and bringing it all back together’ Elvia Wilk, author of Death by Landscape

A luminous novel exploring the intricate web of human and natural transformations across time

Gul, Arth, Luni and Himmo live by the sea that bestows as much waste as wonder upon the shores, including, one day, a creature many believe to be a whale. When a storm passes through their small town, the two mother-daughter pairs are pulled into a whirlwind of deep entanglements and hidden desires.