The Girl in the Garden by Kamala Nair is a stunning debut novel framed by an older Indian woman who leaves her fiance to return to her ancestral home and deal with the past, which is a bit cliche. However, the bulk of the novel settles on Rakhee's summer spent in India before her 11th birthday with her mother's (Amma) mysterious family and away from her father, Aba. Clearly Nair's prose has been influenced by fairy tales and is sometimes reminiscent of
The Girl in the Garden by Kamala Nair
The Girl in the Garden by Kamala Nair
The Girl in the Garden by Kamala Nair
The Girl in the Garden by Kamala Nair is a stunning debut novel framed by an older Indian woman who leaves her fiance to return to her ancestral home and deal with the past, which is a bit cliche. However, the bulk of the novel settles on Rakhee's summer spent in India before her 11th birthday with her mother's (Amma) mysterious family and away from her father, Aba. Clearly Nair's prose has been influenced by fairy tales and is sometimes reminiscent of