Independence (2022) is the 11th novel by India-born American novelist Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. Set during the partition of the Indian subcontinent, it tells the story of three sisters whose lives change in the aftermath of this great disaster. Divakaruni has crafted this domestic novel to deal with themes of sisterhood, love, separation, reunion, and independence within and against the flow of history, with a fantastic cast of characters, rooted in time and place and alive with intents and idiosyncrasies.