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A review by mari1532
Dava Shastri's Last Day by Kirthana Ramisetti
5.0
I checked the audiobook out of my local library because Lilly Singh had made this one of her earlier book club picks and the synopsis sounded intriguing.
Dava Shastri views herself in terms of her own philanthropic work and she desperately wants to know how the world will view that work when she is gone. However, as Dava gathers her children around her for Christmas she begins to see that perhaps she and her legacy are more complicated than she realized. The course of the book examines how Dava and those closest to her navigate those complications and come to terms with them to find love, joy, and comfort in each other and from the sorrows that life brings.
I loved this book. The narrative was beautiful and so complex. Ramisetti has this way of making you feel as if you are a player in the plot even though you are standing outside of it. While I was listening it felt as if I was both Dava and her children throughout the story. As Dava began to think about her life and legacy as a reader it felt like I was learning and understanding how to navigate the parts of yourself that you create to interact with the outside world to accomplish your goals and dreams. As the children, I felt like I was learning how to cope with my own life while learning that my mother was not just a mother but a whole complicated, mess of a person. My only complaint about this book is I wanted the epilogue to be a whole other book. I cannot wait to read Ramisetti's next work.
Dava Shastri views herself in terms of her own philanthropic work and she desperately wants to know how the world will view that work when she is gone. However, as Dava gathers her children around her for Christmas she begins to see that perhaps she and her legacy are more complicated than she realized. The course of the book examines how Dava and those closest to her navigate those complications and come to terms with them to find love, joy, and comfort in each other and from the sorrows that life brings.
I loved this book. The narrative was beautiful and so complex. Ramisetti has this way of making you feel as if you are a player in the plot even though you are standing outside of it. While I was listening it felt as if I was both Dava and her children throughout the story. As Dava began to think about her life and legacy as a reader it felt like I was learning and understanding how to navigate the parts of yourself that you create to interact with the outside world to accomplish your goals and dreams. As the children, I felt like I was learning how to cope with my own life while learning that my mother was not just a mother but a whole complicated, mess of a person. My only complaint about this book is I wanted the epilogue to be a whole other book. I cannot wait to read Ramisetti's next work.