A review by em_beddedinbooks
The Weight Loss Club: The Curious Experiments of Nancy Housing Cooperative by Devapriya Roy

3.0

The initial promise of a cozy Indian story did not last through the entire book. By about 40% things began to pall, and it dragged on and on and on, and finally wrapped itself up including exotic circumstances. The only character I loved was Apoorva or Apu, rest all were sort of stereotyped to the extreme.
The story of the parallel lives lived in a middle income group apartment complex takes place in Calcutta, but it may be true (to some extent, sans the extreme picturization) to all Indian metros and cities.. and can be extrapolated to all mid socioeconomic status people.