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So I guess I read Funny Boy at a pretty good time with its themes of difference and disappointment and love doesn't conquer all and divisiveness between ethnicities and how people do and don't belong. The book follows Arjie's childhood in late 70s early 80s Colombo, Sri Lanka (not gonna lie...everything I knew about Sri Lanka before this book was from M.I.A.). He struggles with gender expectations from a young age, preferring to play bride-bride with his girl cousins rather than cricket with the
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Was the first book I got from paperbackswap.com Only got it because it sounded interesting and I had never heard of it before. Unfortunately, I had started to read it right after I finished a really really good book. So it took a bit to get into it, and the author+customs were foreign.
But it only took me a chapter or two to get used to it.
This is one of the few books where you can really see the growth of the main character. He came a long way, from the boy who used to play bride-bride with the ...more
But it only took me a chapter or two to get used to it.
This is one of the few books where you can really see the growth of the main character. He came a long way, from the boy who used to play bride-bride with the ...more
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