A review by theresab93
You Bring the Distant Near by Mitali Perkins

3.0

As an Own Voices novel, I admire how Perkins captured Indian culture and family values, but the story arc just lacked a bit of heart and care. It's very "snapshot" story telling, weeks, months, even years would be between each chapter that it became hard to really grasp onto these characters. Since the next time we would see them, for example, Character A has now broken up with boyfriend that she started dating last chapter but we have no idea why, leaving the reader feeling quite distant from these characters in general