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Title: Surprised by all the good reviews
Review: Frankly, I'm surprised by all of the good reviews this book got. I really didn't like it at all. You can see the ending coming a mile away, and it takes SO long to finally get there. The book also skips big sections in time -- for instance, one chapter ends with Gita getting married, and when the next chapter begins, she's divorced, with only a cursory explanation of what happened in the meantime. Gita also seems to make a drastic change in character from the beginning of the book to the end, but it doesn't really make sense -- the change is not developed well.I would advise you not to waste your time on this book -- there are many other books by female Indian writers, like Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Bharati Mukherjee, that are much better reads.
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