A review by divyasudhakar
The Color of Our Sky by Amita Trasi

4.0

This was a depressing but hopeful read. I knew some of the topics touched upon tangentially - the tradition of the Devadasis, Kamathipura and what happens to the women and their children there - but reading a whole book about it was like being thrust into a very harsh light, one that exposes all the things I do not like to think about very much. Very little of this book was happy but it wasn't maudlin and the story was captivating. I binged through the book in a matter of a day. I found the story to be a little too dramatic for my taste but who am I to say that stories like this, that very much do exist, do not deserve to be told because they are too dramatic for my middle class sensibilities. All in all a great debut novel from a promising author!