Tashan Mehta

It has a whale on the cover so obviously I had to go find it and it sounds GREAT and I caught it before it went live on the library website so now I’m first in line 💅. Link in case you also need it!

Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta — Runalong The Shelves I would like to thank the author and HarperCollins India for a copy of this novel in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher – HarperCollins India Published – Out Now Price – £7.24 pa...

Americans happy publication day to the excellent Mad Sisters of Esi by @tashanmehta.bsky.social which is a glorious trip of fantasy to get hold of www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2023/12...

Been eagerly awaiting this! Can't wait for my copy to arrive from @bookshop.org

Happy book birthday to this gorgeous, dreamy book that was one of my favorite (non-podcast) reads last year!

Mad Sisters of Esi by @tashanmehta.bsky.social is finally out today! Susanna Clarke's Piranesi meets Italo Calvino's If On a Winter's Night a Traveler in this stunning meta fantasy about the power of stories, belief, and sisterhood ✨🐋🌸

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Can’t wait to see you’ll soon (and hold the hardcover 😍😍😍)

Haha thank you so much!!

The is a very wild book and I recommend it amzn.to/4moxzt3

Congratulations and happy US book day @tashanmehta.bsky.social ! 🥳💜

MAD SISTERS OF ESI is a wondrous, beautiful book. I had the pleasure of reading an ARC (and chatting with Tashan about ESI at a ton of events), and every word shines with her brilliance.

You’ve got to go read it NOW! I

Happy book day to @tashanmehta.bsky.social, whose THE MAD SISTERS OF ESI is an uncategorisable wonder of a novel, a cosmic fantasy threaded with Calvino, Borges, (Susanna) Clarke, but ultimately Tashan's own singularity of story. So delighted for it to reach a larger readership.

I had the pleasure of chatting with Tashan via email about this gorgeous book, the nature of stories, fantastical worldbuilding, the pain and pleasure of creation, and more.

You can read it in full here: writeordiemag.com/author-inter...

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I loved this so much. Thank you!

An enchanting, strange novel - my thoughts on it here: 0tralala.blogspot.com/2024/03/mad-...

You need to read this wonderful book!!

I read a review of this in Interzone when it was first published only in India and got a colleague of my wife's to bring me a copy when he went back to visit family. The book is fantastic. Now that it's easily available in Canada and the US, you owe it to yourself to grab a copy.

It’sss pub day! MAD SISTERS OF ESI is now out in the US and Canada.

To celebrate, Alap and I took a series of truly ridiculous photos at Brooklyn Bridge Park. My baby* is now in New York!

(*Technically an ARC of my baby. The final is a beautiful, beautiful hardcover.)

So delighted to be on this amazing list!

So lovely to see MAD SISTERS OF ESI on this amazing list! Thank you for including it :)

Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta Mehta (The Liar’s Weave) explores the bond of sisterhood in this ambitious, dreamlike epic. Myung and Laleh live together in the...

@publisherswkly.bsky.social wrote a lovely review: "Mehta cleverly brings the plot full-circle in a satisfying finale. Readers are sure to be impressed."

www.publishersweekly.com/9780756420062

It is one of Amazon's Best SFF Books for August

It was featured on @literaryhub.bsky.social 33 Most Anticipated SFF Books for the Rest of 2025. Drew Broussand writes: “The publicity copy calls Mad Sisters of Esi a cross between Piranesi and Calvino and honestly that’s enough for me."

It was featured on @reactorsff.bsky.social Most Anticipated Books for the Second Half of 2025. Chrisina Orlando says Mad Sister’s “sentences are devastating, its scope and intention are breathtaking. I just know you’ll fall head over heels for it too.”

Picture of MAD SISTERS OF ESI cover on a yellow background: featuring a pink whale coming out of a cosmic coral forest

Five days left until Mad Sisters of Esi is out, and here’s a collection of the nice things that have happened to the sisters: 🧵

“I have a crush??? On this book??? I have a crush on this book. Mad Sisters of Esi is the hot girl I heard about at a party … and then fell head over heels for upon first meeting. The prose is so breathtakingly beautiful, it’s no wonder at all that this one is the talk of the town.”

THIS REVIEW!!

This made my month!! Thank you!!

out today in paperback! all the cool kids are reading THE WEST PASSAGE! all the cool kids are getting friends and family to read THE WEST PASSAGE! all the cool kids are standing at their windows at midnight whispering THE WEST PASSAGE in voices not their own!

mad sisters of esi by tashan mehta Life feels like it's been absolutely off the charts lately. Some of that is, of course, because of what's going on globally in politics. But on the other sid...

I'm never exactly sure what the "right" way to review a book is, so they just end up being stream of consciousness that I feebly try to make coherent—for a change, that feels perfect.

Thanks to @tashanmehta.bsky.social for the journey. We could all do with a little more madness in our lives.

Thank you for this beautiful, beautiful review. I am so glad the book spoke to you ♥️

If you were planning to preorder MAD SISTERS OF ESI, the B&N sale is back till July 11th and it’s the last one before the sisters head out into the world. You get 25% off on all preorders (it’s free to become a rewards member) 🐋✨

We’re getting so close to publication day!

The US version should be available in Europe (it's out August 5th) :) There's also a French translation coming out at some point!