Chakrabarti’s characters—diverse in race, class, sexuality, and religion—reveal themselves through longings: a closeted man dreams of conceiving a child with his lover’s wife; a lonely married woman secretly builds an airplane in her garage.

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/05/22/in-the-orchard-a-small-sacrifice-for-an-enormous-happiness-go-back-and-get-it-we-the-scientists