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3.89 AVERAGE
emotional
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A stunningly beautifully moving debut novel.
Immensely readable - I couldn’t put it down and then I had to sit with it.
Lila De (book editor) has inherited the Lahiri ancestral home in Kolkata from her grandfather and must return to India to deal with her estranged mother and family.
The story deals with decades of family resentments - no one everyone is happy Lila got the inheritance - dealing with family secrets, long lost/new loves and political turmoil: an important Indian election is looming.
The story weaves from the current (2015) storyline with the backstory of family members and how they came to me. The story also showcased India and how the effects of colonization trickle downs and affects everyone. The wedding rituals were really interesting to read about.
This book was gorgeous top to bottom. A must read.
I kinda wanna read Seth Schwartz’s 2nd book - ‘… - a luminous rumination on the futuristic, sinking Venice, struggling under dystopian government.’
A secret is a terrible thing. It starts as a single inhalation, a fragment of bacteria that entered your bloodstream, multiplying immediately or over centuries, a thousand neural networks of secrets, emerging from the first… a secret is a terrible thing. Unless there was honour in keeping it.
My mother was not an old lady. She was beautiful and fragile and cruel in the way children can be, and she frightened me.
My mother and grandmother had never been able to love each other in any simple way, and since that was also true of my mother and me, my grandmother and I had a reservoir of leftover love for each other, united by a lack of comprehension of my mothers ways.
There is nothing to be done about the past – no way to forget or revive, no way out of its erasure – except to reach back in, fall into it, touch and spill and search memory, drink it in and, in the end, to know that it was dead, but we were not.
Immensely readable - I couldn’t put it down and then I had to sit with it.
Lila De (book editor) has inherited the Lahiri ancestral home in Kolkata from her grandfather and must return to India to deal with her estranged mother and family.
The story deals with decades of family resentments - no one everyone is happy Lila got the inheritance - dealing with family secrets, long lost/new loves and political turmoil: an important Indian election is looming.
The story weaves from the current (2015) storyline with the backstory of family members and how they came to me. The story also showcased India and how the effects of colonization trickle downs and affects everyone. The wedding rituals were really interesting to read about.
This book was gorgeous top to bottom. A must read.
I kinda wanna read Seth Schwartz’s 2nd book - ‘… - a luminous rumination on the futuristic, sinking Venice, struggling under dystopian government.’
A secret is a terrible thing. It starts as a single inhalation, a fragment of bacteria that entered your bloodstream, multiplying immediately or over centuries, a thousand neural networks of secrets, emerging from the first… a secret is a terrible thing. Unless there was honour in keeping it.
My mother was not an old lady. She was beautiful and fragile and cruel in the way children can be, and she frightened me.
My mother and grandmother had never been able to love each other in any simple way, and since that was also true of my mother and me, my grandmother and I had a reservoir of leftover love for each other, united by a lack of comprehension of my mothers ways.
There is nothing to be done about the past – no way to forget or revive, no way out of its erasure – except to reach back in, fall into it, touch and spill and search memory, drink it in and, in the end, to know that it was dead, but we were not.
medium-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
medium-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I really enjoyed the rich detail of this novel, and the ease with which the author allowed me to sink into it. Great read for this time of year (winter holiday season).