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Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things (1997, Random House) 4 stars

The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, …

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I cannot say I liked this book. It's great, but it's also awful, and I feel like it will take a while to wash it off of me. It describes ugly things as if they were beautiful and beautiful things as if they were ugly.

Also, I think it hit closer to home than I would have liked and much closer than it should have.

I cannot possibly rate this book.