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A review by amallard
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
emotional
funny
informative
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.75
Kabir <3
Wow, I do not like how that rendered.
This was dense. There were pages in the law courts where my eyes filmed over. I didn't care much for what's-his-name the prodigal son.
But. But. As a woman with South Asian heritage raised in a White country - third generation, utterly divided from my history, ashamed of my ethnicity and hesitant to disclose it - this was the book that made me fall in love with myself. I was proud. I was fascinated. I could not be parted from these pages and I would read them in the gym. I realised in bittersweet surprise that this might be how White people felt all the time, when they read. These people felt like my people. This was the first book that gave my history humanity and feeling.
I do wish he'd made more of the love story. I wouldn't have minded an additional fifty pages of fluff. The missing 1/4 star is for that, and not the legal talk.
Wow, I do not like how that rendered.
This was dense. There were pages in the law courts where my eyes filmed over. I didn't care much for what's-his-name the prodigal son.
But. But. As a woman with South Asian heritage raised in a White country - third generation, utterly divided from my history, ashamed of my ethnicity and hesitant to disclose it - this was the book that made me fall in love with myself. I was proud. I was fascinated. I could not be parted from these pages and I would read them in the gym. I realised in bittersweet surprise that this might be how White people felt all the time, when they read. These people felt like my people. This was the first book that gave my history humanity and feeling.
I do wish he'd made more of the love story. I wouldn't have minded an additional fifty pages of fluff. The missing 1/4 star is for that, and not the legal talk.