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| 📕10-word summary: Deep personal loss leads to self-healing and uncovering family tragedy. 🖌6-word review: “A rich, thoughtfully woven generational tale.” |
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| 💭A favorite quote: “Her stories were her only passport to places she had never been. Without them, she would be forever trapped in this village.” | |||||||||
| 🎓Some new-to-me words: Dalit, ghatiya, salwar kameezes, mangalasutra, puja, lassi | |||||||||
| Description:* Nothing prepares Jaya, a New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family’s past. Intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences, Jaya becomes an eager student of the culture. But it is Ravi—her grandmother’s former servant and trusted confidant—who reveals the resilience, struggles, secret love, and tragic fall of Jaya’s pioneering grandmother during the British occupation. *From goodreads.com’s synopsis. | |||||||||
| Thoughts: I read about this book on BookBub and found it in the library, with no waiting list for it. I love, love, loved this book. It’s the kind of book that while reading, I’m thinking, “How do writer’s come up with this stuff? It may very well end up being the best book I read in 2025, and it’s only January. And it might very well become my next Mostly Social Book Club book recommendation. | |||||||||
See the rest of the books I’ve read in 2025 and previous years: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019.
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