Review: The D'Costa Family
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Selma Carvalho
Aug 19, 2025, 2:54:14 PMAug 19
to The Third Thursday Goa Book Club, Goa Writers
Review by Maulee Senapati
Potkar captures the paradox that has long defined the joint family in South Asia: the promise of belonging, shadowed by the demand for submission. The novel’s sociological power lies in its refusal to romanticize. It shows how power circulates invisibly within such households, across generations, along gendered lines, under the cover of tradition. Faith structures habit; sexuality, often repressed, surfaces as quiet resistance; memory, selective and distorted, becomes both glue and weapon. These elements are not incidental, they are the very codes through which the joint family reproduces itself.
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