A review by carlybarly6
A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam

Per the book description, “A Passage North begins with a message from out of the blue: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother's caretaker, Rani, has died under unexpected circumstances--found at the bottom of a well in her village in the north, her neck broken by the fall. The news arrives on the heels of an email from Anjum, an impassioned yet aloof activist Krishnan fell in love with years before while living in Delhi, stirring old memories and desires from a world he left behind.” Throughout we accompany Krishnan as he makes the journey to the war-torn Northern Province of Sri Lanka, meditating on Sri Lanka’s thirty-year civil war, on longing, on grief, and more. Lyrical, slow moving, and beautiful.