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This is a really incredibly grim story, dressed up in a pretty colourful cover. The blurb obviously suggests how dark it is but… it really is dark.
Meena and Abdul were the heart of this story for me and I adored them so much. I wish we spent more time with them than with Smita.
While Smita and Mohan were both compelling characters, I struggled to believe there was any chemistry between them. I’m pretty sure this is because the author used Mohan so much as a surrogate for India, challenging Smita constantly about her mixed feelings towards her homeland.
I also felt like there were a few things that were left unfinished by the end, Smita lying to her dad and also WTF was going on with Nandini?! For a book with such sticky, heavy subject matter, I didn’t love that it basically ended with an airport run.
The writing style in the italicised Meena chapters is lovely. The Smita chapters are a lot more basic and matter of fact — presumably to reflect the fact that she’s a journalist, but I found it jarring to return to every time.
Overall I’m glad I read it, and I feel I definitely learnt a lot about a part of Indian culture that I know very little of.
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This is How You Lose the Time War
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I've long felt that loneliness is rampant, and I think it's hard for people to detect in others and also to identify within themselves. I think the pandemic's isolation made people have to confront themselves more, and realize how much we desire companionship and the nearness of others. I feel there was such a push over last... few decades to promote independence, self-sufficiency, drive, climbing of social and corporate ladders, girl bossification, etc. I think there are A LOT of people who have a very small group of friends or people around them, and who long for more connection and interaction.
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Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction
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A Dead Djinn in Cairo (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.1)
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