A review by kbuchanan
Immigrant, Montana by Amitava Kumar

3.0

This book was not quite what I expected, but it was an interesting reflection on the transitory nature of experiences in a new country and culture. Focusing on one Indian man's life and loves as a graduate student in the U.S., this book is a slow unfolding of processing where we come from, where we are going, and what makes life meaningful along the way. It was at times a bit too meandering for me, and I sometimes got the feeling that I was viewing the narrator through several sets of filters. The story also views the narrator's experience through the lens of several women that he has loved, and I felt like these characters at times verged on becoming simply vessels for the protagonist to use to process some stage of feeling or other. Occasionally very interesting, but often slow.