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Violence
Some
Communal and religious violence sits in the backstory of the characters' student activism rather than on the page; the present-day harm is coercive control inside a marriage
Language
Some
Measured, literary; no notable profanity
Sexual Content
Some
Marriages and one long-ago affair are discussed frankly but without explicit scenes
Substance Use
Barely any
Negligible
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Kirkus flags the terminal brain cancer, the oppressive marriage, and themes of abandonment, estrangement and family dysfunction
What this book is about
Armaiti, dying of a brain tumor in America, asks to see the three women she marched with as a student in Bombay. Getting them there means confronting Nishta, who married a Muslim man now grown devout and controlling, and who has not been allowed out of the house in years. Umrigar writes politics as something that curdles into private life.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
Terminal illness
Coercive control in a marriage
Religious extremism within a family
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