Book Box: Racy Reads for the Holidays
2 years ago

Book Box: Racy Reads for the Holidays

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Fiction is the gateway drug to reading, says Neil Gaiman. But here, in 384 pages, I feel like I’m looking at the real story, the one they never told me, the one that happened off the battlefields of Troy. They have waited long enough for their turn.’ Book 4 of 5: Coming of Age Romance All the Right People. What’s most stunning is how remarkably real life everything is –right from a chauffeur taking the blame for a billionaire businessman’s son’s drunken driving to politicians profligate progeny. I’ve read Pariat’s short stories set in the North East before, and always wanted more, so I am looking forward to staying with this book, following the narrator from Delhi, to her home in Shillong, moving onto others travellers and worlds, and going slow through it all, savouring Parihat’s luminous and limpid prose.

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