A review by caitlancole
Small Days and Nights by Tishani Doshi

reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I need to sit with this story longer before finalizing my thoughts but it ended just as it began, and I am unsure if our main character grew or transformed at all in the middle. Maybe she learned not to take her sister for granted? And that she does want the life she’s chosen for herself? But at times we were kept at an arm’s reach from the true emotion of the story and so I’m just not sure what I was meant to take away from this. It almost seemed too true-to-life to be a novel — more like scenes of a life, reflections, no real conclusion or point to make.