⚜️📖 Read with the #NOLABookFest Krewe! This month’s book is sheilamythili’s captivating debut novel, Habitations Vanity Fair described it as, “a coming-of-age story that explores our concepts of home, sexuality, and identity…. Through Vega, Sundar zeroes in on what it takes for a woman to create her path, while telling the story of an Indian immigrant jostling with caste, a human exploring her sexuality, and a student managing sociology coursework as her view of the world starts to blossom.” Vega Gopalan is adrift. Still reeling from the death of her sister years earlier, she leaves South India to attend graduate school. In New York, Vega straddles many different worlds, eventually moving in and out of a series of relationships that take her through the striving world of academia, the intellectual isolation of the immigrant suburbs, and, ultimately, the loneliness of single motherhood. But it’s the birth of Vega’s daughter that forces the novel’s central question: What does it mean...