A review by ajcousins
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

5.0

The. Most. Depressing. Book. Ever. Ok, I exaggerate, but only a little. Holy crap, the writing is brilliant and the story is sweeping and grand, but it reminded me a lot of The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton. In both books, the main characters start out in situations that are not great but which, by the end of the book, look like the closest they would ever get to heaven. Things get worse, rebound for a moment, just long enough to make you think that maybe something will work out, for ANYONE, only to slide even deeper into tragedy. Oy.