What a power house of a fiction. I feel like I’ve learnt so much about Sri Lanka, the civil war, the Hindi religion and goodness; migration, the importance of giving refuge, memory and story…all wrapped up in a multi generational historical fiction full of family politics, delicious sounding curries and love. I am so glad to have ‘had’ to read it for the bookies bookclub; it’s a novel that really highlights the power of fiction and why I read. It definitely comes with some triggers, it covers the 1946 to 2010 in Sri Lanka, but it definitely comes with my highest recommendation
