Book: The Lowland

 Book: The Lowland

Author: Jhumpa Lahiri

Pages: 415

This is my 165th read for the year

This is the story mostly of Subhash and his family.  He and his brother Udayan grew up in Calcutta and when it was time for graduate school, Subhash left for the United Staes and settled in Rhode Island to finish his studies.  He plans to return to India someday, but years go by before he is summoned back for a tragic reason.  He tries to pick up the pieces of his family and returns to the US with others in tow.  It changes the path of his life forever and he spends his whole life mourning for what he lost and left in India.

This was a pretty good book.  I am a fan of Jhumpa Lahiri's books, but this one was a little dry.  I found large passages that I felt I could skip and not lose the premise of the story.  It could have been about 300 pages and told the same tale.  I did like that we get to follow the life span of several characters in this story.  Overall it didn't grab me like her others.  She overly describes and I found that this did not help develop the characters well.  I felt a lot of times to "get on with it" instead of enjoying where the story was going.  Ending was just okay.

Stars: 3