Animal's People Sinha, Indra

Nineteen years after a chemical disaster leveled Khaufpur (read: Bhopal), a boy known only as Animal walks on all fours. His spine was twisted by the poison that killed thousands, and now he refuses to stand upright — why pretend to be human when the world treated him like an animal? Told entirely in Animal's raw, profane, darkly funny voice, this is the story of a survivor navigating slums and injustice, falling in love, and battling an American company that never paid for what it destroyed. Indra Sinha draws from the real Bhopal disaster to create something urgent and alive — a novel that's angry, tender, and impossible to look away from. For readers who want fiction that bites back, or anyone drawn to characters like Oskar Schell or Ignatius J. Reilly — deeply damaged, fiercely alive.