A review by papertraildiary
Bombay Blues by Tanuja Desai Hidier

2.0

Sadly, because of how much I adored Born Confused and how high my hopes got in such a short time, this book was a big let-down. 550 pages and really I could count the big things to happen on my hand. I can tell Tanuja likes to write poetically, but most of the time it felt like it was clogging up the rest. And besides always being skeptical of everything every character says is meaningful and deep (that is not realistic), that just made it feel like the whole book was trying so hard to make a point of growing up and such. I'm still processing my feelings, but it was a drag of a read. I wonder if reading in short bursts does that? I wonder if I was in a different headspace if I'd like it? The main characters ended up becoming quite annoying and the character who I would have loved to read more about isn't really shown off until the end. I'll be bummed about this for a long time :(