Completed: October 4, 2025
Recommendation: Mildly recommended
Recommended By: Nobody
Review:
The omnipotent narrator has an odd habit of addressing the protagonist as, "you." It is an odd third person personal (?) form of story telling. It was so incredibly distracting to be so directly addressed by the narrator in the persona of the protagonist as to constantly distract me from the story which unfolds from a series of descriptions and vignettes which feature people who are not present (most notably the protagonist's mother who has died).
Desai is celebrated for her turn of phrase. In this book I was captured by, "The bells ring unexpectedly at irregular times." I like this sentence because it suggests that if there are bells, they should be ringing expectedly at regular times. In the following paragraph there is a discussion, effectively, of unexpected memories intruding. It is a nice link and something that I can appreciate. I liked that the metaphor was implied by proximity.
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