Sexy, surprising, and subversively wise, Babyji is the story of Anamika Sharma, a spirited student growing up in Delhi. At school she is an ace at quantum physics. At home she sneaks off to her parents' scooter garage to read the Kamasutra. Before long she has seduced an elegant older divorcee and the family servant, and has caught the eye of a classmate coveted by all the boys. With the world of adulthood dancing before her, Anamika confronts questions that would test someone twice her age. Ebullient, unfettered, and introducing one of the most charming heroines in contemporary fiction, Babyji is irresistible.

Abha Dawesar was born in New Delhi in 1974. She graduated with a degree in political philosophy from Harvard University after writing an honors thesis examining the conception of human greatness in Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals. She currently works in Business Development for a software company in New York. Her first novel Miniplanner written in the voice of a gay white man will be released in November 2000. She is the receipient of the New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship in Fiction for 2000.