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Tag: India

Review: Good Indian Daughter by Ruhi Lee

Lee’s memoir is a complicated depiction of parents and parenting.

India, Melbourne, Memoir, Nonfiction, Parenting

Review: China Room by Sunjeev Sahota

A slight but full novel set in 1920s and 1990s Punjab.

1920s, British, Contemporary, Fiction, India, Novel, Racism, UK

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Ruhi Lee’s memoir is a story of parents and parenting. She recounts her experience of growing up in Melbourne, revisiting her family’s home in Karnataka and finding independence through love and work. But when she becomes pregnant with a daughter, she begins to question her own upbringing, and through therapy starts bringing things she’s kept quiet out into the light.

I don’t often read crime, so I was excited to read this for a book club!

This short and immaculate novel begins on the Western Front. Alfa Ndiaye, a 20-year-old Senegalese man enlisted in the French army, is grieving the death of his more-than-brother Mademba Diop. His grief leads him to horrific vengeance, but also a new kind of independence.

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