An Indian novelist especially noted for her sensitive portrayal of the inner life of her female characters. Several of Desai's novels explore tensions between family members and the alienation of middle-class women.
The redesigning of 7 of her well received novels gave us an opportunity to unify them in their genres of writing styles. Picking out one element which represents the story and rendering it in a sketched out style is the look we kept constant. A synopsis of the story, laid out under the illustration forms a typographical texture.