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Destination Wedding
by Diksha Basu
Being a basic white girl who has never left the states, the glimpses of India and Indian culture from Tina, a second generation Indian American, were quite fun to experience and kept me going through this book. I also loved the positive representation of divorce; Tina's parents divorced several years prior and seem to get along beautifully. Seeing divorced couples not only treat each other civilly, but also with care and friendship is really heartwarming.
What I found odd was how little of the actual wedding and wedding activities we saw in a book with "wedding" in the title. Tina seemed to barely attend any of the wedding shenanigans and was always off doing her own thing.
Destination: Avoid the Wedding.
*cue rimshot*
I'm hilarious, I know.
So anyway, like I said, the culture and view of India kept me going through this, because TINA sure as heck did not. Tina confused the hell out of me. For a mid-late thirty-year-old woman, Tina and her best friend came across more like teenagers or early twenties. Neither seemed to have their shit together or a clue what they were doing and neither were particularly likable. I was also confused as hell because Tina, a longtime resident of Brooklyn , seemed to lose every drop of her city skills and street smarts once she was dropped down in India. She couldn't figure out how to cross a road, appeared to have never seen poverty or homeless people and thus had zero clue how to act around them, and got sucked in by some half-baked hustlers.
The most difficult aspect of this book was the POV. With no transition, we get throw into other people's heads. And not just in a cycle of main characters (we regularly get POVs from her Dad, Mom, or friend. We also get thrown into the heads of random people with no rhyme or reason; Tina's taxi driver, the hustler, some rando leaning against a car maybe? It was very, very confusing and took a lot of adjusting to.
This seemed less like a novel with plot and direction and more like a collection of snapshots of perspectives from Tina and the people surrounding her. Which was unique, but kind of strange.
What I found odd was how little of the actual wedding and wedding activities we saw in a book with "wedding" in the title. Tina seemed to barely attend any of the wedding shenanigans and was always off doing her own thing.
Destination: Avoid the Wedding.
*cue rimshot*
I'm hilarious, I know.
So anyway, like I said, the culture and view of India kept me going through this, because TINA sure as heck did not. Tina confused the hell out of me. For a mid-late thirty-year-old woman, Tina and her best friend came across more like teenagers or early twenties. Neither seemed to have their shit together or a clue what they were doing and neither were particularly likable. I was also confused as hell because Tina, a longtime resident of Brooklyn , seemed to lose every drop of her city skills and street smarts once she was dropped down in India. She couldn't figure out how to cross a road, appeared to have never seen poverty or homeless people and thus had zero clue how to act around them, and got sucked in by some half-baked hustlers.
The most difficult aspect of this book was the POV. With no transition, we get throw into other people's heads. And not just in a cycle of main characters (we regularly get POVs from her Dad, Mom, or friend. We also get thrown into the heads of random people with no rhyme or reason; Tina's taxi driver, the hustler, some rando leaning against a car maybe? It was very, very confusing and took a lot of adjusting to.
This seemed less like a novel with plot and direction and more like a collection of snapshots of perspectives from Tina and the people surrounding her. Which was unique, but kind of strange.