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Mirror City, by Chitrita Banerji. Writer Chitrita Banerji resides in Cambridge,
Mass., but this book was published for the Indian market; I got a copy after it showed up as a consignment at my old workplace. It's good! It's about an Indian/Hindu woman married to a Muslim and living with him Bangladesh during the tumultuous political and social upheavals of the 1970s. Uma struggles to find a place for herself, establish a career and manage her relationship with her husband while negotiating some pretty tricky politics. I liked it a lot and would recommend it.
The Luminaries, by Eleanor Catton. This won the Booker Prize a few years ago; it's a big, complex, sprawling historical novel set in New Zealand of the late19th century as gold prospectors mingle with misfits and tangle for money, love and power. It's hard work but worth it.
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I have like five books going right now that I have been reading for a few weeks and it's been just as hard to write reviews as to finish books. I want to come up with a new format to talk about books, something that differs from the kinds of "reviews" I've been writing for almost eleven years now. What do you think of the capsule-type reviews above? Do you have any other suggestions? I'd love to get your help!
FTC Disclosure: I did not receive any of these books for review.
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