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Nov 01, 2019
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Three years on from her mother's death, Shalini is still struggling with her grief. She and her bold, erratic mother had been close, although Shalini would often think she never really knew her. Some of her happiest memories were from the years of her childhood when the travelling Kashmiri clothes salesman, Bashir Ahmed, would drop by to visit and regale the two of them with stories. When Shalini loses her job due to seemingly terminal lassitude, she decides to break away from her father and her
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One dimensional characters. Improbable situations built up just for the sake of being a situation. Unbelievably, the young adult falling for the next tall ruggedly handsome, preferably poor conflicted man she meets trope (tripe?). And some sloppy editing (disgust and annoyance are not the same - but that's how it's used in this book!). Passable prose (some of the metaphors were so misplaced, I could feel the distaste in my mouth - yep!).
I don't get why this book got as much attention as it did. ...more
I don't get why this book got as much attention as it did. ...more
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