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Dava Shastri's Last Day by Kirthana Ramisetti
3.0
This has an interesting premise: a woman tells the world she’s dead but lives a few days past that date. The book starts out with her announcement to her family (and then news breaking to the world outside of their carefully closed-off holiday haven). Then it goes back and forth between the present (well, technically, the future as it is for us because this is set about 20 years from now) and the past. As information is shared in news articles and Dava and her family read about it, the story flashes back to what happened.
The novel is a profile of a very strong-willed, determined personality and the effects she had on her family and others in her orbit. Dava is sometimes not very likeable; her toughness and zeal for her work made her often distant to her children. But the point is made that these qualities would be forgiven, indeed, praised, if she had been a man. Several interesting things to think about.
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The novel is a profile of a very strong-willed, determined personality and the effects she had on her family and others in her orbit. Dava is sometimes not very likeable; her toughness and zeal for her work made her often distant to her children. But the point is made that these qualities would be forgiven, indeed, praised, if she had been a man. Several interesting things to think about.
Read my full review, including a rating for content, at RatedReads.com: https://ratedreads.com/dava-shastris-last-day-fiction-book/