Friend of my Youth begins with the novelist Amit Chaudhuri returning to Bombay city in which he grew up to give a reading. Ramu the friend of his youth with whom he likes to get together when he comes back, he’s not there after years of disabling drug addiction. Ramu has signed up for an intensive rehab program, but Amit Chaudhuri has errands to run in Bombay for his mother and wife, which take him back to the Taj Mahal hotel, the site not that long before, of a brutal terrorist attack. Missing no pages No writing or highlighting Printed in the USA on acid free paper New York Review Books NYRB 165 pages 2017