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Fiction has come to my rescue a lot of times in the past and it continues to even now, sometimes as an escape and sometimes with bits and reflection of just what I need to hear.
Finished reading Sisterhood of Swans last week and still thinking about @lescarvalhos ‘s exquisite writing!
Born to two Goans soon after they arrive in London from Bombay in late 1989, Anna Marie Souza grows up in a home of broken promises and relationships. Her parents separate when she’s young, leaving scars and a longing to feel loved. Like swans seeking a pair for life, all she’s after is a kind of love that feels embracing but used to men walking out on her, she finds herself in one doomed relationship after another.
Through her, Carvalho explores a multitude of themes, a narrative born out a dysfunctional family Anna Maria struggles with love, sexuality and desire, trying to find her place as a second-generation Indian immigrant.
I loved the writing, Carvalho’s command on words and her cast of female characters, fierce and trying to mend themselves, be it Anna Marie; her Indian-hating Indian mother who doesn’t hold back; or her best friend Sujata, troubled with thoughts of anxiety and suicide.
Sisterhood of Swans isn’t a perfect novel but I always love narratives that explore complexity of relationships, motherhood and single motherhood; a bitter sweet mother-daughter bond, which isn’t ideal most of the times but doesn’t cease to share common strings.
Finished reading Sisterhood of Swans last week and still thinking about @lescarvalhos ‘s exquisite writing!
Born to two Goans soon after they arrive in London from Bombay in late 1989, Anna Marie Souza grows up in a home of broken promises and relationships. Her parents separate when she’s young, leaving scars and a longing to feel loved. Like swans seeking a pair for life, all she’s after is a kind of love that feels embracing but used to men walking out on her, she finds herself in one doomed relationship after another.
Through her, Carvalho explores a multitude of themes, a narrative born out a dysfunctional family Anna Maria struggles with love, sexuality and desire, trying to find her place as a second-generation Indian immigrant.
I loved the writing, Carvalho’s command on words and her cast of female characters, fierce and trying to mend themselves, be it Anna Marie; her Indian-hating Indian mother who doesn’t hold back; or her best friend Sujata, troubled with thoughts of anxiety and suicide.
Sisterhood of Swans isn’t a perfect novel but I always love narratives that explore complexity of relationships, motherhood and single motherhood; a bitter sweet mother-daughter bond, which isn’t ideal most of the times but doesn’t cease to share common strings.
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