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kirstenrose22 's review for:

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
3.0

Um. It's about northeastern India, an area I know next to nothing about. It won the Booker Prize. I'm not sure why. Lots of pretty flowery language that sometimes was nice on the page, but not very memorable after the fact. I basically thought she tried too hard to fluff/prettify things up, instead of just telling the damn story. She cuts back and forth between India and an immigrant in New York City (illegal and working under the table in various kitchens around the city, surrounded by other illegal immigrants from third world countries all over the world) - the NYC sections were most evocative and moving for me. *shrug* So-called "literary fiction" is often just not my thing - it's too pretentious and self-aware for me. And I like *plot*, which makes me disgustingly old-fashioned.