This book review comes close on the heels of International Women's Day and in the middle of women's month. Hence, we are celebrating a breakthrough Indian woman author, whose lexical lyricism makes reading effortless. Bookstrapping Rating: 3.5 stars
Anuradha Roy's book All the Lives We Never Lived recently won the Sahitya Akademi Award for 2022 in the English language category. Image: Amazon
No straight lines for women?
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way," goes the first line of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.
I was reminded of it when I read the opening line of Anuradha Roy’s book, ' All the lives we never lived.' She writes, "in my childhood, I was known as the boy whose mother had run off with an Englishman."
This review comes close on the heels of International Women's Day and in the middle of women's month. Hence, we are celebrating a breakthrough Indian woman author, whose lexical lyricism makes reading effortless. And thankfully, she does not celebrate perfection.