It explores caste, sexism, colonialism and the strange unspoken rules that tie Indian families together. Like in most great novels, the prose itself is stunning, with imagery fresh and original and at the same time, somehow familiar. I'm a girl from a South Indian village and I was raised by a single mother and my grandmother.
Perhaps it is this coincidence that ties me so strongly to the book, to see in tangible words the burden that history passes along to Indian women."