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A review by chelseamartinez
Circa by Devi S. Laskar
2.0
This book is so specific in certain fine details; the types of indian sweets each friend prefers---the particular color of shalwar kameez the mother wears day to day---and yet very hazy to me in other ways.
Do times change so radically and so quickly, or is the suburban south so different from where I grew up, that this book, set in teenagerhood five years before my own, seems to take place in no specific era but definitely one earlier than the early to late 90s, one on the edge of the era of yoga pants? The book ends in 2001, but until the World Trade Center is mentioned I was sure it was still the 80s.
I don't think this is because of the cocoon of the traditional family that is a major part of the book, but maybe it is? The attraction between the main love interests seems preordained but blurry for the middle 80% of the book, and that's probably the real thing that disoriented me most.
Do times change so radically and so quickly, or is the suburban south so different from where I grew up, that this book, set in teenagerhood five years before my own, seems to take place in no specific era but definitely one earlier than the early to late 90s, one on the edge of the era of yoga pants? The book ends in 2001, but until the World Trade Center is mentioned I was sure it was still the 80s.
I don't think this is because of the cocoon of the traditional family that is a major part of the book, but maybe it is? The attraction between the main love interests seems preordained but blurry for the middle 80% of the book, and that's probably the real thing that disoriented me most.