Anuradha Pandit

Beautiful book. I remember bawling my eyes out and it's even not that sad! There is just something about Macy's character that was so relatable and tragic. You immediately feel a kinship with her. Elliot was likeable too but I stuck by for Macy. If you're looking for something emotional and romantic, don't think twice.

Very few books keep me up at night. This is one of them. Finished it in 4 hours. Loved it. Not totally unpredictable but good read if you're looking for a thriller.

For generations, peasants were oppressed by the rich landowners, living and dying in pitiful conditions. On the March of 1967, they took up arms and killed their masters and taking back the land. This was in Naxalbari, a small town in northern Bengal. The insurgency quickly spread to Calcutta, and henceforth came to be known as the Naxalite revolution. The book revolves around two brothers, Udayan and Subhash. Both were inseparable as children, but their lives took different turns when Subhash moves to Rhode Island and Udayan gets embroiled in the revolution. The story then explores both these brother's lives and the repercussions of their actions which seep through the generation of this family. An extremely haunting and devastating book, Lahiri's prose is grounded and hard hitting. The book deals with love, loss, violence, both political and emotional. Although a failed radical movement, the book does its job in making the reader question why a revolution is required in the first place.