A review by briqhtkit
What We Carry by Maya Shanbhag Lang

emotional reflective slow-paced

3.0

the writing was mid and lang was such an unreliable narrator that i both disagreed with her at times and couldn’t follow any cohesive train of thought as the story jumped to random incidents she decided to include. That being said, lang is such a strong person and mother and daughter and the repetition of the woman in the river and her devotion to both her mother and her daughter were so so admirable. she had some spare moments of beautiful prose that hit me too hard as the eldest daughter of an Indian immigrant and some parts were just so personal to my own relationship with my mother.