pasc96 's review for:

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

4.0

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Four lives illustrate the impacts of globalization in this lovely book. Desai's writing is so vivid and wise; she is an especially gifted place writer, no matter the setting, and is equally adept at immersing the reader in the northeast Indian Himalayas as New York City. While Desai often describes atrocities and great suffering, she is careful to preserve and illuminate each character's dignity and worth, and by the close the reader feels both deep sorrow and irrational hope.