silences 's review for:

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy

3.75

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didn’t quite come together, but i think thats the point. a little uneven and disjointed but incredibly ambitious, like roy’s vision of a coalitional political resistance and all the people she crammed into one graveyard. but there are moments that are so amazing—i love how roy turns our attention to the beauty and love in political struggle. this one goes out to all the people who thought the god of small things was just a “magical realist” novel.