Mahajan's first novel, Family Planning, was described by the San Francisco Chronicle as "Brave, breakneck, and amusing"'; in the Seattle Times as "Pleasurably crazed"; and in the Washington Post as "Genuinely funny" and "Profound". Author Suketu Mehta described it as "The truest portrait of modern New Delhi I’ve read, and the funniest book of the year", and novelist Jay McInerney called it "one of the best and funniest first novels I’ve read in years".
Family Planning was published by the Harper Perennial imprint of HarperCollins, and released in the US in 2008 and the UK in 2009, with translations forthcoming in India, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Brazil, and Korea.
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