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Sara - I hope you like it as much as I did!
I feel very positive about it, Ann. I loved A Fine Balance.
This one is about a family - so not quite as tragic! But I thought it was very good.
I'm enjoying it so far, Ann. I like delving into a culture that is so different from my own. I learned a ton from A Fine Balance. I knew almost nothing about the desperation of that era in India's history. I seemed to have read a lot about the Raj and the withdrawal of England, but very little about what happened afterward.
Sara - I did not know much about Partition or the time afterward, either. Mistry and several other excellent authors have filled in a lot of gaps that my education left with me! Have you read Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai?
I have not. I will add it to my enormous TBR and hope that I can get to it before I forget it exists. That seems to be happening to me a lot lately. I have had Family Matters sitting on my Kindle for literally years.
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Jan 13, 2026 09:18AM
Sara - I hope you like it as much as I did!
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I feel very positive about it, Ann. I loved A Fine Balance.
This one is about a family - so not quite as tragic! But I thought it was very good.
I'm enjoying it so far, Ann. I like delving into a culture that is so different from my own. I learned a ton from A Fine Balance. I knew almost nothing about the desperation of that era in India's history. I seemed to have read a lot about the Raj and the withdrawal of England, but very little about what happened afterward.
Sara - I did not know much about Partition or the time afterward, either. Mistry and several other excellent authors have filled in a lot of gaps that my education left with me! Have you read Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai?
I have not. I will add it to my enormous TBR and hope that I can get to it before I forget it exists. That seems to be happening to me a lot lately. I have had Family Matters sitting on my Kindle for literally years.
