title: Our Time Has Come: How India is Making Its Place in the World
author:  Alyssa Ayres 
description: <br>"In <em>Our Time Has Come</em>, Alyssa Ayres, a former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for South Asia and currently a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, describes [India's] astonishing transformation and parses skillfully the political revolution that has accompanied it. . . . Ms. Ayres, always lucid and erudite, is at her best in her analysis of India's foreign policy. . . . Ms. Ayres draws a portrait of India in 2040-50 years after she first set callow foot in New Delhi as a Harvard junior-that takes the breath away." - <em>Wall Street Journal</em> <br> <br>
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  “I know how to watch my back. I’m the only one that
  
  
  ever has.”
  
  India Maxwell hasn’t just moved across the country—she’s plummeted to the
  bottom rung of the social ladder. It’s taken years to cover the mess of her
  home life with a veneer of popularity. Now she’s living in one of Boston’s
  wealthiest neighborhoods with her mom’s fiancé and his daughter, Eloise.
  Thanks to her soon-to-be stepsister’s clique of friends, including Eloise’s
  gorgeous, arrogant boyfriend, Finn, India feels like the one thing she hoped
  never to be seen as again: trash.
  
  But India’s not alone in struggling to control the secrets of her past. Eloise
  and Finn, the school’s golden couple, aren’t all they seem to be. In fact,
  everyone’s life is infinitely more complex than it first appears. And as India
  grows closer to Finn and befriends Eloise, threatening the facades that hold
  them together, what’s left are truths that are brutal, beautiful and big
  enough to change them f