The Storyteller's Secret
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Nothing prepares Jaya, A New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family's past. Intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences, Jaya becomes an eager student of the culture. But it is Ravi -- her grandmother's former servant and trusted confidant -- who reveals the resilience, struggles, secret love, and tragic fall of Jaya's pioneering grandmother during the British occupation. Through her courageous grandmother's arrestingly romantic and heart-wrenching story, Jaya discovers the legacy bequeathed to her and a strength that, until now, she never knew was possible. -- from book jacket
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Another one of those books that throws in a bunch of difficult and nuanced topics only to deal with them in the most superficial and simplistic way and then tie it up in a bow at the end. The ‘romance' is at the level of a Mills & Boon novel, the writing is only just competent and all the characters are one dimensional stereotypes. Which is a shame, because as noted it tries to take on some difficult topics like inequality, colonialism, adoption, miscarriage, arranged marriages... but it's all toothless.
