Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

We call these Saas-Bahu soap operas in India - sappy, full of tropes - the distant husband, peckish MIL, gossip mongering SIL, a handsome "Pardesi" with a sad heart, woman looking for trouble. None of them are sketched in any detail except for superficial conversations- the story - the secret - long drawn and winded - am going back to finish this book about the 3 rd time just to see how it ends when I already know what is going to happen. What a facile description of India, pandering to the popular taste, riddled with inaccuracies and made up words - Shrimati ??? Really ???? How hollow does it ring if sag is sakh? - It sounds as if the words are made up from reading picked up in the library than from a life lived and reflected upon. And how low does one have to go, to describe a girl in braces that extends all the way up to her neck? In the old days ( or even today ) a girl who had Polio may have been abandoned rather than fitted with braces that would have cost a fortune. And which child with polio has braces upto the neck, I wonder if this author set foot out of an air conditioned ride ever. Polio has been eradicated in India but why bother putting a good picture of the third-world into our head...just cater to whatever sells. I am just amazed there was no mention of a snake charmer, or maybe I missed it Edit: I just finished the book and am going to give it a 1 - The condescension of it! Take way the man's great grand kids because she has money and a spacious apartment in New York. Wow! This is the true Brown Colonialism if any! Shame.