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If the book is meant to be considered a literary novel that examines the immigrant experience and contrasts between India of the 1980s
If this volume is considered a calorie-free summer read, and so I give it 4 four points for a tale of 1980s immigrants struggling to figure out to which culture they vest, with a bit of a love-ish story thrown in. If a light summertime read, and then is also succeeded in introducing the average American reader to the ups and downs of clearing for upper class, educated Indians.If the book is meant to be considered a literary novel that examines the immigrant experience and contrasts between India of the 1980s and the US of the 1980s, so I requite it a 2.5 to three points for missing a few primal points that would have taken it from an ok to non-so-adept literary novel over the top into a good or great novel.
The book read every bit if the novelist had non decided where she wanted to the book to reside, or maybe she new only her editors thought otherwise to market place it, and tried to write both a light romance novel and a literary novel in i, except it didn't really work.
Here is where the book fell downwards:
1) Time placement. I really wish the author had anchored the book firmly in time, only as information technology was it was generally pre-1995, merely with some ambiguity as to whether the story was taking place in 1981 or 1987 or 1997 or 2007.
With a careful reading, at that place are just 4 places in the whole book that place it occurring sometime between 1981 - 1989:
a) A small statement in the first 4 or 5 chapters near information technology being "the Eighties". The eighties were 10 years long, when in the eighties?
b) A minor argument midway through the volume that Neel was born simply after the Independence of India. The author tells us several times that Neel is 35, so if he was born sometime between 1948 and 1960, then the book would have taken place 1983 to 1995.
c) A word betwixt Leila and her friend Rekha on arranged marriages talking virtually the hymeneals of Charles & Diana being an contemporary event or at least within the concluding few years.
d) No net or mobile phones, only 1 communicates betwixt the U.s.a. and Republic of india via state line and sending "cables".
Why does fourth dimension placement matter? Well, if the author had managed fourth dimension a chip more precisely and presented the 1980s India as a world on the edge of big alter (as we now in hindsight know it was), the reader could accept felt more keenly both the ambivalence of Neel'southward wanting to escape traditional India and Leila's willingness to straddle both cultures.
The fourth dimension also matters, equally if information technology was the early on or mid-eighties, then some of the American cultural references (like rollerblades & recycling) would take been completely off. If it was the belatedly eighties or early on nineties, and then those references would take been on in a culturally cutting edge town like San Francisco.
2) Neel - From a romance novel perspective, the character of Neel is a bit of a dud, as he does non redeem himself enough in the end. From a literary novel perspective, the character of Neel is almost in that location and needed a scrap more fleshing out.
I believed Leila's character fully. I nearly believed Neel, but not enough in the end. I would similar to have a bit more on the conflict raging within of Neel that made him in the end choose what he chose, particularly in regards to his wife.
3) Identify: While nosotros knew that that Neel and Leila hailed from a town in South Bharat, that they were Iyengars, and went on their honeymoon in Ooty, I wish for the author had told us what town (even if made upward) and what state in India they were from. It matters. She told us all nearly San Francisco, so why not give the reader equally much on the town in India, the language they spoke (each state in South Republic of india has its own language, cuisine, ways of wearing a saree or the like, etc.).
Subsequently googling "Ooty" and "Iyengar", it became obvious that Neel and Leila were virtually likely from Tamil Nadu, with a small chance of Kerala or Karnataka. This matters, as each of these states has a distinct civilisation, merely similar it would have bothered the American reader if the author had non listed the boondocks or state that the couple lived in on the West Declension. The story would have been just as odd if nosotros were trying to approximate what part of the Westward Coast the author meant (is it Seattle? is it Portland? is it San Francisco? etc.)
The crux of the story resides in the cultural conflict that an immigrant experiences between Republic of india and U.s.. I wish South Bharat had not been and so generic. Information technology is possible that the writer or her editors did non want the story to take to go into the differences between Tamil civilization and other parts of India, but the book would have benefited if both were from Tamil Nadu and the added dimension to Neel's internal conflict if nosotros had known a bit about the cultural conflicts between Tamil civilisation and the North of India. Then Neel would have been more human, his desire to achieve in the United states may accept been more than understandable, why he did non speak Hindi, etc.
Sorry to become on so much, just I did like this volume and I really wanted information technology to succeed into the areas that would have made it a smashing volume. I am yet thinking of the story in my caput, which means that the book is closer to 4 points than 3 points for me.
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I'g twenty two years erstwhile and then I take no idea what it was like in the eighties. I am a nineties child - my childhood moulded by hours of Mario Bros, cartoons like Tom and Jerry and other things. I don't know if this is why this book seems and then alien and relatable to me.
Alien because I cannot encompass why a woman with as much fire and smarts equally Leila would stay with someone like Neel. Call me whatever yous want merely I was full of admi
Disclaimer: This might be a very emotional review. Oh, and I'm Indian.I'thou twenty two years old then I have no idea what information technology was like in the eighties. I am a nineties kid - my childhood moulded by hours of Mario Bros, cartoons like Tom and Jerry and other things. I don't know if this is why this volume seems and so alien and relatable to me.
Alien because I cannot cover why a woman with as much burn and smarts as Leila would stay with someone like Neel. Call me whatever you want just I was full of admiration for her when she was in a frenzy to either kill him or leave him, filled with rage at the mockery he was making out of her, her life and their marriage. But then she realized that she couldn't go back to Bharat for obvious reasons (and so many years later, divorce is notwithstanding a stigma that makes my family shudder.). So, she lingers confused and and so she finds out she's meaning. Neel actually pushes her to get an abortion just she refuses. And so when things practise a 360, she's all happy because life is every bit it should exist. She's pregnant and Neel wants the babe and they're happy. A baby does not make things okay. I can't have information technology. And I can't believe Neel lied like that. Does he honestly think Oona or Shanti aren't ever going to bring it up with Leila e'er? One give-and-take, one reference and the whole thing could fall apart. Bring upwards the argument that Indian women aren't comfortable discussing their matrimony and I'll bespeak out that Oona isn't Indian. However, I did like the piffling snippets into Oona'due south thoughts, the frustration when she realizes that she will never know Indian tradition like an Indian woman does. That information technology will always cause a gulf between Sanjay and her.
Relatable considering I tin can understand the coercion to become married, the emotional blackmail that seems so strange to not-Indians but is a term that every twenty-something Indian knows. It'due south a role and parcel of our land, tucked away aslope the dosa, the colorful chutneys and the coconut. However, no thing how much I sympathized with Neel, I never really liked him. Leila on the other mitt, Leila I could really become behind.
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Hey! Don't option on the book! I suppose a book tin't help what it is -- but its writer can, and its writer missed a few of the more than obvious novel-writing lessons. Signal-of-view changed then frequently I had whiplash by the third chapter. There'south no real sense of time, or identify, for that thing. I wouldn't accept guessed information technology was still the nineteen-eighties for the characters if Cherian hadn't mentioned that outright, and her San Francisc
NUTSHELL: This poor volume is so confused, merely like its protagonists. 3.Hey! Don't pick on the book! I suppose a book tin can't help what it is -- but its writer can, and its writer missed a few of the more than obvious novel-writing lessons. Point-of-view changed so oft I had whiplash by the third chapter. In that location's no real sense of time, or place, for that thing. I wouldn't have guessed it was still the nineteen-eighties for the characters if Cherian hadn't mentioned that outright, and her San Francisco is a generic large urban center with identify names pasted on. The narrative cuts off too abruptly at the finish; if there's going to be a sequel, for God'south sake leave us somewhere sensible.
Why'd you fifty-fifty bother with a three? I liked Leila, the female protagonist. Neel'southward a slimy then-and-so and Caroline (Caroleen, like the French) is a caricature of white trash. I finished the volume for Leila and no-one else. Bypass this book like a blocked artery.
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But HONESTLY THIS DOES NOT Fifty-fifty DESERVE THAT.
This should be destroyed it's existence. This is one awful novel. Which is in short a 350 page puppet freak evidence led past master manipulator Neel and Leila whose brain did not achieve it's growth, right afterward age viii. The book nearly gave me a low. The book precisely consisted of an inconsistent man who landed a "dutiful" indian bride who has dignity somewhere below the arctic temperature. Leila "Forgives" hi I WISH I COULD Charge per unit THIS BOOK Below 0,
BUT HONESTLY THIS DOES NOT Fifty-fifty DESERVE THAT.
This should be destroyed it'due south existence. This is one atrocious novel. Which is in short a 350 folio puppet freak show led by primary manipulator Neel and Leila whose brain did non achieve information technology's growth, right subsequently age 8. The book near gave me a depression. The book precisely consisted of an inconsistent homo who landed a "dutiful" indian bride who has nobility somewhere below the chill temperature. Leila "Forgives" him? It'southward non fifty-fifty forgiveness when there'due south no fight put up, only plain acceptance of being Treated As a Chump from the love child incarnation of a principal manipulator and a defensive niggling moron. I repeat THIS Book NEEDS TO Exist BANISHED FROM EXISTENCE. It gives the globe wrong ideas about an Indian "married woman" the start really did have a good offset made a reader detect hopes by giving a blueish print that this pitiful existence of a woman Leila had a SPINE!!! She has no career goals, no life, absolutely nothing except her and so called waste of space married man who deserves a painful decease from every reader of this book. ...more
Neel similar every other American Indian nonetheless struggles with his identity and has to oblige to his conservative mother's asking of making a trip to India to visit his ailing (dying) granddad. Once in In
Suneel Sarath, a Stanford graduate and now an anesthesiologist works in San Francisco. He was born in India but has lived in the United States long enough to feel and be completely Americanized. He prefers to be called Neel, lives in a condo, has a foreign girlfriend and very few Indian friends.Neel like every other American Indian still struggles with his identity and has to oblige to his conservative female parent's request of making a trip to Republic of india to visit his ailing (dying) grandad. Once in India he realizes that this was yet some other trap to get him married. He decides to play it safety and just make a social visit to please his relatives but things practice not work out the way he planned, as he soon finds himself married to Leila, a instructor of English literature. Leila has remained a spinster long enough to have no hopes of wedlock and is very excited when she finally becomes the helpmate to a very eligible bachelor. The book narrates the differences betwixt Leila and Neel and if they manage to make the union work.
This book was a joy to read. Anne Cherian's debut novel portrays the challenges faced in arranged marriages in a very beautiful and elegant fashion.
The novel is written from three perspectives that of Neel's, Leila'southward and Caroline's (Neel's girlfriend). All of the characters save Leila were believably flawed (peradventure Neel a bit too flawed) and struggled with their uncertainties and insecurities. Caroline was very predictable and so were Neel's Indian friends. Neel is detest-able and comes across as an educated moron who cannot determine what he needs to exercise with his life. He adds a lot of grapheme to the book and plays a very vital office in making Leila the person she becomes. Leila is pic perfect and I loved the self-conviction she gains while struggling with her loveless married life. She stands out as a adult female of course with bully will power who finally gets what she deserved.
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Leila's reaction to the US was fun (trouble finding the place to put mail in at the mailbox) while non being insulting or harshly stereotypical. I liked Leila a lot, she is quietly cocky-possessed, intelligent only too personable, strong-willed and cooperative.
Many particular moments weaved together into a seemingly-unlikely but true-ish story arc.
And/or, just the correct book at the right time for me!
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Suneel "Neel" Sarath is a successful, upward-and-coming anesthesiologist in San Francisco. He has a swanky, minimalist condo, an expensive car, a plane which he shares with two other doctors, and a secretive human relationship with a beautiful blonde secretary who fawns over him and fulfills all of his sexual fantasies. Neel is too an Indian man, transplanted to SFO from a village in South Bharat, where his family unit yet lives, and where his destiny calls in the grade of letters from his pushy Amma who insists he must return to India to ally. Neel can simply ignore her nagging persistence for so long because, at present, the messages and phone calls that arrive from Republic of india say that his beloved Tattappa is ill. When Neel returns to his village, family drama rears its ugly caput and, somehow, he ends up engaged to exist married – to a girl he'south met only once!
Leila Krishna lives in a small village in S India with her parents and two younger sisters. She teaches English and literature at the local schoolhouse, and tries to placate her overbearing Amma, who insists she proceed to meet potential suitors, despite the fact that she's practically across marriageable historic period and that she's been rejected time and again – likely due to the scandalizing "state of affairs" she put her family through years ago. She is witty, well-read, kind, and cute, but realizes that, without a sizable dowry, it is probable she will never marry. Then, something astonishing happens. After an awkward offset meeting with handsome doctor from America, her parents are informed that the boy's family unit has accustomed the lucifer, and she is engaged to exist married! In 1 month, she'll become from single to married, and from Republic of india to America. Perhaps her dreams will come true subsequently all!
Back in the United States, Neel finds it very user-friendly to leave his unwanted, subservient wife at his empty condo, and choice back up with his secret lover, Caroline. He internally agonizes over Caroline's lack of teaching, her position as a mere secretary, and his doubt at her ability to ever be intellectually stimulating plenty to mix with his well-off, educated, doctor friends. This doesn't terminate him, nevertheless, from giving Caroline his BMW, from taking her out for fancy dinners, and from taking her on exciting weekend trips to Reno in his plane. Most of all, it doesn't stop him from having sex with her whatever chance he gets. Love readers, Neel is Not a sympathetic or likable graphic symbol!
Meanwhile, Leila must deal with the aftershock of leaving all she has ever known to spend the rest of her days with a human being she barely knows; a man who "works belatedly" most nights, doesn't touch her at all, and barely contains his derision when he's with her, even amid his friends. She eventually goes on to surprise both Neel and herself past taking things in stride. Despite her new husband'due south constant absences and disruptive beliefs, Leila boldly claims her new life in San Francisco by exploring her new neighborhood, making her own friends, volunteering her fourth dimension at the local women'south shelter, and writing a children's volume with dreams to be published. She is steady, determined, loyal and loving, despite the poor treatment she receives from the man she'south committed to for life.
Throughout the narrative, we learn that Neel has a bit of a fetish for white women, and that he had heavily pursued a white adult female in his university years, who somewhen chose her white, well-bred family over him. He is incredulous that his female parent and grandfather think they know what'southward best for him, and furious at having been "tricked" into an bundled matrimony. Well, he will show them all! He won't shame the family name, no, only that doesn't mean he has to act like a married man one time he and his new bride are dorsum in SFO. Life gets in the mode of his all-time fabricated plans, however, and Neel begins to realize that trying to please two women is exhausting (cue sarcasm), that Caroline is rather abrasive and needy (though nonetheless gorgeous), and that his Tattappa may have been correct after all when he told Neel that it is best to "marry your own kind."
While Neel is run across-sawing between the ii women in his life, Leila eventually wises up to the fact that he is seeing another woman, which is confirmed twice over, once when she sees them together, and once more when she receives a confessional phone call from Caroline. She contemplates leaving Neel, even going back to India, but knows that she would be turned away from her parent's home if she bankrupt her sacred marriage vows. Instead, she chooses to conduct her burdens like a "good Indian wife" is expected to practice, and confides in no 1 about her troubles. When Leila shares life-changing news with Neel, and he receives another telephone call from India, it looks similar things might beginning to plow around for the two strangers-turned-life partners. But is information technology all likewise little, also late?
After all of that drama, dear reader, can you see why I couldn't terminate reading until the cease? I just had to encounter if Leila would ever confront Neel nigh his infidelity and poor handling, or if Neel would realize how dishonorable he was being, non only to himself, merely too to the two ladies in his life and to his family. I wanted to know if things got better!
I really liked Leila'due south graphic symbol. Despite existence unwanted and unloved, she really blossomed in San Francisco, and expertly straddled the cultural divide by remaining true to herself and her values while remaining open to new experiences and people. I loved her wit and the ease with which she related to others. Her situation demands sympathy, and her reactions and behavior are credible. I do feel she may exist as well perfect a character, just knowing that she was raised under very strict rules nearly how a woman and a wife should behave, I'm willing to requite her some leeway.
Neel's grapheme made me want to throw the book confronting the wall. He was and then arrogant, shallow, selfish, manipulative, and most of all, he was a crook and a liar! When he initially returns to India, he does so with a superiority circuitous, looking at everything through his Americanized eyes. He refuses to eat with his hands, he bemoans the lack of a proper shower, and he mentally corrects and criticizes the speech and grammar of his loved ones. He does some really rotten things to rid himself of his newly-acquired "baggage" - that is, his wife. Then, he carries on an matter with a woman he does non love or respect, a woman he keeps in hiding, a woman he knows without a dubiety is non the woman he will ally.
That brings me to Caroline (pronounced "Caro-leen"), Neel's mistress. I alternated between feeling sorry for her for being the woman who is not "good enough," and despising her for knowingly being "the other woman." Caroline is Neel's blonde, beautiful secretary. We learn through Neel that she never completed her higher degree, that she is a very sexual individual, that she is both clingy and willing to practice anything for him, and that he never takes her out in public in their hometown. Alternatively, his (white) ex-girlfriend, Savannah, is depicted every bit cute, successful and educated, but when her family unit refused to have her Indian boyfriend, she dropped him like a hot potato. So, in that location you are, dear reader: white women in the United States are either sexually promiscuous, uneducated bimbos or their families will not take a human being from a different ethnic or cultural background.
Speaking to Neel's characterization, I've seen many white women write depressing letters to Alex of Madh-Mama, saying that their long-term Indian swain has gone off to India to become engaged or married to a proper Indian girl, leaving them high and dry. Now, this evidently does happen, simply it doesn't mean I like to meet Indian men portrayed as such unfeeling, unthinking characters in fiction. Perhaps I take information technology more personally because I am a white adult female engaged to an Indian man? Make of that what you will, honey readers. My bespeak is, Neel's character seemed extreme in its carelessness, and I wish he had been depicted in a more than counterbalanced fashion.
That brings me to the end of the book. As the folio count started to sparse, I found myself desperately wondering whether Neel would ever fully 'fess up to his nasty behavior, and whether at that place would be enough fourth dimension for some deep introspection on his part equally to the role he played in the g scheme of things. I am torn between feeling rather disgusted at the catastrophe, and begrudgingly admitting that such an catastrophe may very well be reality for the blazon of state of affairs Neel and Leila constitute themselves in. I see that several reviewers were really pretty happy with the way the story ended. If any of my fellow volume lovers has read A Good Indian Married woman, I'd honey to hash out this with you!
A Good Indian Wife is, get-go and foremost, a story well-nigh an arranged marriage. It is likewise about the evolution of life for Indian emigrants in the United States, and the importance of honor in Indian families. Finally, this is a story about the existential struggle of many young people in India: the struggle betwixt pursuing their desires and conforming to the expectations of their family. Overall, I enjoyed the time I spent with this story. I feel that I am more than agreement of the role that family laurels plays in the lives of many South Asians, and I can appreciate the (by and large) sincere intentions backside arranged marriages.
If you're looking for a skillful weekend read with a fleck of dramatic Indian flair, and you're willing to non look too deeply into both the cultural and relational implications in A Skillful Indian Wife, you may very well relish this book, too!
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This review originally posted on my volume review weblog, ShelfishlyAddicted.com.
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Why practise nosotros Indians forget that nosotros come from a country where people with mindsets of different centuries co-exist and walk the aforementioned streets as nosotros practise? Why doe
It is funny how in India 1 can be and so hands categorized: the typical behenji, the ane whose mother won't permit her leave, the one who's traditional, the wild party freak, the bad graphic symbol. Why is it then, that after having the discussion 'America' associated with them does ane lose whatsoever of this? Is it synonymous with beingness modern or united nations-traditional?Why exercise we Indians forget that we come from a country where people with mindsets of dissimilar centuries co-be and walk the same streets as nosotros practise? Why does anything traditional take to be ridiculed equally an fourscore's story? I am a millennial - modern and educated. Traditional - by choice. Upbringing stays. I tin can relate to Leila on so many levels.
Would I have to defend and explain my traditional views to young man-Indians if I lived in India? No. Five stars for this book.
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By Janna Whitehead - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Skilful Indian Wife: A Novel (Kindle Edition)
I take read many books well-nigh India and accept come to honey their food, their history, their culture. Merely, this is my favorite considering of the new aspects I learned about Republic of india... and most Indian men especially!! The author is able to write in compelling detail simply what thoughts and feelings each grapheme has!! She sho
By Janna Whitehead - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Good Indian Wife: A Novel (Kindle Edition)
I have read many books about Bharat and take come to love their food, their history, their culture. Merely, this is my favorite considering of the new aspects I learned about India... and about Indian men especially!! The writer is able to write in compelling particular just what thoughts and feelings each character has!! She shows both sides of each situation and really gets within their 'skin.'
We come across over-achieving, fully-Americanized Neel living the 'good life' in Pacific Heights with no desire for anything 'Indian' including a wife!!
Nosotros see lovely Leila still living with her parents at the age of 30 and didactics English in a local school in India. She has been rejected by so many suitors that she has lost hope of ever getting married.
Nosotros come across Neel's family unit frantic for him to come habitation and marry a 'local' girl.
This is a wonderful, exciting, suspenseful book!!!! Read it!! You volition exist crying for more books past this writer and you lot won't exist disappointed. As soon as I finished it I ordered Anne Cherian'southward The Invitation!!! I plan to read every book she writes/has written!!
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Only, the perspectives on arranged marriages and on Indian/American identity of emigrants are interesting and made this enjoyable. 2.five stars. ...more
The author moves the spotlight frequently, shifting POV between characters even within the aforementioned paragraph. While this usually helps the reader understand and connect with the characters on a deeper level, in this novel information technology frequently feels jarring. It could also be a short-cutting the first-fourth dimension writer uses instead of creating atmosphere and mood through actions and conflict.
It is probably considering disharmonize is handled internally within the master characters Neel and Leila that I didn't feel enough tension or want every bit their relationship develops. Caroline, (carol-een), Neel'southward mistress and his Aunty Vimla are the virtually expressive and therefore steal the scenes they're in. You lot can experience the depth of both women's desperation that drives their manipulative beliefs and that's what makes them stand out.
However, the restraint, duplicity and self-denial that we see in Leila and Neel is purposeful, though. Through them, the writer provides two different perspectives on what it means to be Indian and America and perhaps that's at the cadre of why this book is mild - the conflicts are internal about want vs. expectations, family unit vs. self-determination, civilization vs. well, culture.
Throughout the story, there were many places where something stunning or shocking could have occurred, but the pace of the tale and the character evolution was steady and slow. By the time I reached the final pages, I was satisfied with the catastrophe. Merely information technology's like I wished for a Triple Chocolate Tart with Bourbon Whipped Foam and had gulab jamun instead. It'southward not the spectacular finish I would rave about, but information technology's a sweetness catastrophe all the same.
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Leila is a overnice girl, a teacher, and unmarried in rural Republic of india. She is ready in an arranged wedlock with a swain who left the village years ago to get a medical education, and is an anesthesiologist in San Francisco. They marry in India, take a brief and loveless honeymoon, and he takes her dorsum to the States, where he ignores her and cavorts with his white mistress.
A skilful office of the story is told from the perspective of the anesthesiologist, who doesn't encounter himself a
I wanted her to do it.Leila is a nice daughter, a instructor, and single in rural India. She is set in an arranged union with a young man who left the hamlet years ago to get a medical education, and is an anesthesiologist in San Francisco. They marry in India, have a brief and loveless honeymoon, and he takes her back to the States, where he ignores her and cavorts with his white mistress.
A skilful office of the story is told from the perspective of the anesthesiologist, who doesn't encounter himself every bit a bad person, merely bad people never see themselves that fashion. He's a morally weak cad who allowed himself to be drawn into an arranged marriage with a married woman he never wanted and clearly doesn't care well-nigh. A Skillful INDIAN Wife might have been a picayune more fun if he had been a mustache-twirling villain, but those went out with vinyl records and financial conservatism.
Cherian does an excellent job here of evoking the strangeness of Republic of india for the Westernized reader, besides every bit the strangeness of America to a mostly-isolated immature Indian woman. The book builds towards an catastrophe that is surprising and compelling--then draws back at the terminal second, towards something more ambiguous and common.
The principal attraction of A GOOD INDIAN Wife is that information technology's and so eloquent about things that are essentially commonplace. But that ways that the volume itself is mostly commonplace, despite its exotic setting. It's essentially a romance novel without whatsoever romance, dry, apartment, and virtually sterile, The one burst of true emotion comes late in the book, and it largely redeems information technology, merely not entirely.
I still wanted her to do information technology. I remember she should have.
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It's a slow boil, simply it really starts to selection up and get interesting. Nevertheless
This is another book where I wish we had one-half stars because it is a solid 3.5. Arranged marriages are intriguing to me, and assimilation in all of its many shapes and variations is as fascinating. Both are forepart and center in this volume. What I also liked near this volume is that the point of view is shared betwixt Neel and Leila, and they have solidly contrasting points of view in just about every sense imaginable.Information technology'south a tiresome boil, simply information technology really starts to pick up and get interesting. However, I would give it three.5 for the ending, which felt like a quick end. It's fashion too swell for the situations that have been presented and it certainly lacks the emotional finish information technology deserves while information technology tries to pull a fast one on you lot into thinking you've gotten it.
I would recommend this book for the theme and POV; just exist prepared to be allow down when yous finish.
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Neel, also, is a fascinating character in how he has given up then much traditional information technology's most at the cost of his true self. And yet, he has force in most of his option
This was such a lovely story. I actually sympathized the Leila, even though her cultural point of view is very different than my own. From an American betoken of view, she could exist seen as naive, only it'due south very articulate that she's trying to find a balance between finding a life that works for herself and honoring her culture and family.Neel, too, is a fascinating character in how he has given up so much traditional it's almost at the price of his true cocky. And nonetheless, he has forcefulness in most of his choices also. In some ways he seems like a jerk, just his reasoning makes enough sense that I get why he does what he does.
Information technology's really interesting to meet how these characters stop up together and how everything falls into identify. This book has a lot of center and I really enjoyed it.
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