Book excerpt: My life was like a jigsaw puzzle with a vital piece missing from it and something had inspired me to think that I could find that missing piece again. Based on this hope, I made the decision to go on this journey. A Nameless Place is the story of a British Indian girl, Laxmi Gupta, who is desperately searching for a sense of cultural identity. Having lost her parents in a car accident when she was only two, and later losing her grandmother when she was still a child, Laxmi was sent to a boarding school in London. Now she is 26, single, and frustrated with her life in London. After an intense relationship which fell apart, Laxmi is left broken and confused. She decides to go back to India to resolve some of the questions that have been haunting her for years, but going back to her birthplace unleashes deep secrets, and creates new entanglements that she had not anticipated.