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Amitav Ghosh: The Hungry Tide (2006, Mariner Books) 4 stars

Off the easternmost corner of India, in the Bay of Bengal, lies the immense labyrinth …

Sharp climate-tinged human pain

4 stars

Riveting exploration of selfishness and idealism and loss, set deep in the strange tidal mangroves shifting landscape of rivers and migrations of people and animals.

There are a couple scenes in here that so perfectly eviscerate our character's self-conceptions as good people in just a few lines, and then let them still be complicated and interdependent as the sense of morality too ebbs and washes.