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Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY editor: Valerie Steiker
What we talk about when we talk about love drives February's standout fiction. Set against the dramatic landscape of post-independence India, Manil Suri's The Age of Shiva (Norton) uncovers astonishing grace in an ill-starred marriage, while Charlotte Bacon's delicately honed Split Estate (FSG) follows a pair of New York teens and their bereft father to a small Wyoming town in the aftermath of their mother's suicide. Serving up thwarted desire for a good cause is Jeffrey Eugenides' bittersweet candy box ...