A review by laura_corsi
The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani

3.0

The Night Diary takes place during the chaotic days of India’s Independence from British rule and the partition of India. It is told through the diary of a 12 year old girl who has to leave her home which is suddenly in a new country, Pakistan, and immigrate back to India. Nisha does not understand why everyone is so angry about religion suddenly. She has never paid attention to religion before after all. Why, she asks herself, should she take sides? Wasn’t her mother Muslim and her father Hindu? Doesn’t that mean that no one is her enemy? Very well written and moving.