A review by molly_collins
The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh

3.0

This is an amazingly-researched work of historical fiction that spans three generations of a family in Burma, India, and Myanmar. While it is a dense read, packed with the facts that locate the characters in time and circumstance, it is almost too full... It is challenging to determine what characters are going to show up later in the book and which ones seemed to be thrown in as a device to incorporate a historical perspective the author wanted to illustrate. Also, if you pick this one up, read it closely! The author constantly dispatches characters with an uneventful "and then he died." And if you miss those words at the end of the sentence you're waiting for the character to return, and have to page back with a "WTF just happened to that guy?" I am only sort of exaggerating. But it was worth a read, and a lot of people seem to really like it, I just felt like it got to be too much of a good thing.