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A review by wendoxford
Small Days and Nights by Tishani Doshi
4.0
A haunting read set across three continents with all the female mental dislocation that accompanies this split.
Grazia, the protagonist seems to be adrift from every expectation placed upon her. Society seems to judge her harshly with an intolerance of her difference. The reader sees her as a woman attempting to do the right thing. She recognises her own failure to meet the impossible standards thrown upon her by both nation and family but steers her own course.
Secrets, small village personalities and politics in rural India with an incredible sense of place. The rawest bittersweet novel I have read for some time
Grazia, the protagonist seems to be adrift from every expectation placed upon her. Society seems to judge her harshly with an intolerance of her difference. The reader sees her as a woman attempting to do the right thing. She recognises her own failure to meet the impossible standards thrown upon her by both nation and family but steers her own course.
Secrets, small village personalities and politics in rural India with an incredible sense of place. The rawest bittersweet novel I have read for some time