This book is beautifully written. But the story is so sad and goes back and forth where there was great confusion. I had to look it up on SparkNotes to understand what was happening. I wouldn't recommend it.
Skittering between present and past, Arundhati Roy’s intense novel of a shattered family is infused with the sights and smells of southern India; it’s an indelible depiction of the struggles of women and of lower- caste Indians against the enduring constraints of traditional society. Yet the sensual and social specificity of the tale only deepens the resonance of the book’s grasp of a far-reaching truth: how human structures empower fate, turning essential yearnings for love and security into ineluctable tragedy.
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