A review by sarahbowman101
Atlas of Unknowns by Tania James

4.0

Anju and Linno are teenage sisters in a small town in Kerala. Their father is a driver and they also live with their grandmother, their mother having died when the girls were young. Linno is an introverted artist who lost her hand in a firecracker accident. Anju is smart and ambitious and while she earns a competitive scholarship to a prestigious prep school in New York City, the deceit it took to get there might prove too much. Most of the book follows Anju, which was interesting but I felt missed too much of Linno's story. Flashbacks to their mother were both telling and confusing. Not great, but accessible and interesting, this could be an easy recommendation for most fiction readers.