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Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man
by U.R. Ananthamurthy
Religion makes people do weird things. I enjoyed learning more about Hinduism and India through this novel and appreciated the main character's struggle with what his religion requires of him. One of his fellow Brahmins dies, but he was a bad Brahmin, so the others are not sure if they should give him a Brahmin's burial or if that would endanger themselves. So they let the body rot while trying to figure it out. They recognize that's ridiculous but still can't figure out what to do. I liked this, but it was definitely a message-driven book and not so much a character-driven one.