A review by zhelana
The Color of Our Sky by Amita Trasi

5.0

This book was advertised for fans of Nadia Hashimi, and boy did they nail it. It was very similar to Hashimi's writing, which is a very good thing. It was, like Hashimi, about how poorly women are treated in certain conditions. This condition was a brothel for a young girl who was born to a temple prostitute. In India, that birth guaranteed that she would spend most of her life also as a prostitute. This book is also about the love between two girls - one upper caste and one lower caste - and how that love evolved from 5 year old children to adulthood. I loved Mukta's voice, and how she managed to maintain hope and see good in small things in such awful situations.