If there's one impression this book will leave on you, it's how beautiful a place can be, and yet be filled with good and evil, and the forces that drive lives and relationships forward in unpredictable, unknown ways.
pickFunny and meticulous look at the minutiae of people‘s lives in north east India, an area often brutalized by the state and overlooked by the literati. Characters span the range from tribals/First Nations to Anglo-Indians to transplants from South and East Asia, in a superb documenting of India‘s diversity (something that Indian writers who gain fame in the West conveniently overlook or package in Bollywoodesque bites) & its colonial hangover
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