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This is a beautiful, sensitive insight into Indian-Muslim culture as it co-exists alongside life in the United States. The story is told from multiple perspectives and jumps around in time a fair bit. This is not my favourite format, but I recognise the structural advantages to revealing different parts of the plot at certain times. I was interested to read this because Fatima Farheen Mitza is married to Riz Ahmed who I recently heard interviewed...read more
Book 16: I'm convinced that Reese Witherspoon's book recommendations are really for white people who live in a white bubble.
So this book was okay. I was just annoyed at how charming and funny the brother was supposed to be, but we were only told this. We never saw it in action. Frankly, I want people in books to exist outside of their traumas sometimes. The rest of us do. Anyway, this was another dysfunctional family novel (Nothing against the...read more
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