Current Budimir Book Club selection. It was a sweet little book. You can feel the love

I found this book interesting and easy to read. It focuses on several themes : interracial marriage, interracial adoption and disparities between cultures. It also delves into the disparity between the different classes in India , contrasting the lives of the well-off and the poor living in squalid conditions in the slums of Mumbai. Asha, a young woman who has been adopted in India at the age of one by a caucasien American woman and her East Indian husband, travels to her country of birth for the first time at the age of 20. She discovers a loving grandmother, a large extended family and her origins as the abandoned infant of Davita and Jasu Merchant.
This book reads quickly.

I loved this book. It deals with family and the reality and importance of women. I found it captivating, informative and very emotional. As someone very interested in India it was a wonderful glimpse into some of the realities of life there. I wasn't sure I would like it when I got it but I was amazed at how much I enjoyed it. Then ending took me by surprise but was powerful. My wife kept up with my reading and we had a number of interesting discussions.

This is a beautiful story, and it kept me up into the small hours of the morning. I am looking forward to reading more from this author. It is the story of Kavita (in India) who gives away her baby Asha, and the Americans halfway around the world who adopt her (Somer and Krishnan). This is a book about culture and belonging, and l loved it. (submitted by library customer YE)

What started off as a quick and interesting read became slow and tedious. I found the characters to be unconvincing and unrealistic, lacking in development and good dialogue. I put the book down at the halfway mark as I failed to feel any sympathy for the protagonists.

The books is ok. An easy read but not much of a story. It's a very slow book. I found myself continually waiting for something of substance to happen but it never does.

This is a good story but it is just that, a story. Lacks depth, fake dialogue. I prefer books with more literary value but this is an easy read and a good story nonetheless.

Is an easy read makes a good book? Well, this book is definitely easy to read and...it reads as a newspaper article or ...a Bollywood movie script.
As the book is quite monotonous, I read only those chapters that showed some dynamic and skipped those that didn't. I liked more the Indian part of the story - it's culturally rich, colorful and interesting. America, as described, is a safe and pretty boring place to live in. Interesting comparison and choice of words, for sure.

Good idea for a story but definitely reads like a first novel. The sentences are a bit clunky at times, and the dialogue is cliche. That said, I appreciated that the ending was not as tidy and predictable as I expected.

Excellent book - abrupt ending