cphenly 's review for:

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

3.0

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I'd probably go 3.5 if that were an option, but I didn't "really like it," so I rolled it down instead of up. I liked the book; I think I might have liked it better had I not just recently read Abraham Verghese's Covenant of Water. I did struggle with the narrative structure. The author says in an interview that she can see the logic of it, but I really can't. All the way through I had to stop paying attention to narrative long enough to figure out where we were supposed to be in time.

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And I don't see why we had to the the incestuous incident at the end. I can't figure what it adds to the story.