A review by mjanemartin
Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure by Sarah Macdonald

1.0

I picked up this book because I've always wanted to travel to India and I like a good travelogue. I understand that Macdonald is being humorous, but humorous to the point of being mean was too much for me. She writes from a lofty pedestal of privilege and does nothing but complain, whine, belittle and write condescendingly of India and it's people. She made fun of the Hindu religion throughout the entire book. She looked on poverty with disgust...she ran screaming in revulsion at a woman with a burned face, begging on the street. In the opening pages of the book she says, "Everyone seems to drive with one finger on the horn and another shoved high up a nostril." It didn't get better from there. She went on to diss Buddhists and even jumped the Dalai Lama's ass. She was the typical Westerner looking with disdain at any non-Western culture. Be warned that the humor in this book comes at the expense of others. Not cool.