A review by valeriebrett
Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure by Sarah Macdonald

3.0

2.5 stars. I totally get why many people find this irritating or offensive. I also get why some people liked it (but I don’t get why it was an “international bestseller”). She starts out so condescending and annoying that I understand that some would stop reading—but it does get much better as she acclimated to India and starts to explore with an open mind. I hate how she kind of at the end reduces the experience to how she learned one lesson from each religion and India “made” her and she was reborn (such a cliche). It’s strength was her descriptions of a lot of detail about the experience of life in India as an expat and also descriptions of the different religions.