Author: Sindya Bhanoo
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 4 out of 5
Pages: 240
Date Started: 24 April 2022
Date Finished: 27 April 2022
It was an impulse pick from the new release section of the library. I did not know that the book was fiction until I started reading it!
The book contains stories about South Asian families and the families they have left behind.
It was a good read. The stories were heartwarming too. I liked some stories more than others, but I was able to relate to each one of them. The stories were about human feelings more than about the South Asians! I really liked the book because it was mostly about views from women's point of view, and mostly teenagers. While I was reading, I felt like I would be thinking the same, being a woman.
Favorite lines from the book:
She is wearing a plain cotton sari. She has wiped her bottu, taken off her earrings, bangles, and toe rings. She looks naked and vulnerable. That is what happens when you wear these things for so many years, they become your permanent clothing.
"So, a dead thing is living," Neel concluded. "Because it was once alive."
There are people who let their wounds heal and there are those who pick at them and pick at them.
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