Arundhati Roy, the author of the global bestseller "The God of Small Things," is back! Her long-awaited novel "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness" takes us to the most unlikely places to find happiness. A series of outcast heroes confront their destinies here, but they find a community and form a family of a special kind. In a cemetery in the old city of Delhi, a handwoven carpet is unrolled. A baby unexpectedly appears on a sidewalk. In a snow-covered valley, a father writes a letter to his three-year-old daughter about the many people who came to her funeral. In a room on the first floor, a lonely woman reads the notebooks of her beloved. In the Jannat Guest House, two people embrace tightly in their sleep as if they have just met—yet they have known each other for a long time.