Oleander Girl
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780670086733 (0670086738)
Publish date: April 20th 2013
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
This book is essentially "chick lit" set in India. I don't particularly like that word as a descriptor as I think it is a pejorative way of classifying storylines that interest women, but it does call to mind certain tropes. And this book was rife with them -- lots of family drama, secrets about the...
Review first published on my blog: http://memoriesfrombooks.blogspot.com/2013/08/oleander-girl.htmlThe Oleander Girl is Korobi Roy. Her very name stands for the oleander flower - beautiful yet strong. To her knowledge, Korobi was orphaned at birth and raised in a loving home by her maternal grandpa...
Chitra Divakaruni's writing keeps getting better. I found this to be my favorite book of hers so far, especially since she didn't succumb to certain plot twists I was sure she would do, and it wasn't overwritten with flowery sentiments like her earliest books. I thought the ending was a little too...
Would have loved to read this book as it seems very interesting, but I NEVER received my goodreads giveaway copy. Will check it out of the library at a later time.
I received this book in a goodreads first reads giveaway.Korobi's vision of her dead mother hooked me from the beginning. This is a fun dramatic book with a lot of plot. I found Korobi and Rajat's relationship strange at first; they don't seem like two characters who would be compatible, but they lo...
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