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A review by soetaa
Between Queens and the Cities by Niranjan Kunwar
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
4.0
The way he writes, it tastes like honey on my tongue. The book had me cry, had me laugh, and made me feel seen; not because of my sexual or gender orientation either, but because it speaks so well of that longing - to find an anchor, to belong, of the inevitable changes that life brings, and that disorienting feeling of swimming through uncertainties.
I would've given the book a 5 star, if it weren't for the second half. The first half of the book was every bit worth 5 stars. In the second half, I felt like the book was bogged down with so many details that the thread of the story was lost at times. I'm not sure I needed to know things like how yanan brought clear liquid in a plastic bottle and captioned the Facebook post so and so, and other such details. I wondered if the earlier part was based on memory and so the mind had already done the job of filtering out the extraneous details, so that every bit remembered was ripe with juice, whereas the second half over-relied on daily journals and the husk stayed on with the yield.
Regardless, I would recommend this book to anyone who asked.
I would've given the book a 5 star, if it weren't for the second half. The first half of the book was every bit worth 5 stars. In the second half, I felt like the book was bogged down with so many details that the thread of the story was lost at times. I'm not sure I needed to know things like how yanan brought clear liquid in a plastic bottle and captioned the Facebook post so and so, and other such details. I wondered if the earlier part was based on memory and so the mind had already done the job of filtering out the extraneous details, so that every bit remembered was ripe with juice, whereas the second half over-relied on daily journals and the husk stayed on with the yield.
Regardless, I would recommend this book to anyone who asked.