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thepavand's review
4.0
The author, Indira Chandrasekhar, happens to be a biophysicist as well. I am generally not a huge believer in the writing abilities of academicians; they tend to focus on unnecessary detail, boggling down the narrative, and neglect to make the reader feel. Chandrasekhar, on the contrary, renders her scientific temperament to the service of her stories wonderfully, giving them an ethereal atmosphere, while still capturing the very human suffering/emotion at their base.
The stories are in general well-written. Some of the stories have fantastical, or dystopian or other sci-fi settings, which were quite unique and original. The story 'Black sari' is about a sari that absorbs the menstrual blood from the wearer. 'Abandoned rooms' is about a dystopian future where a class of women are genetically engineered to breed since humans cannot birth anymore. A story about how the governments inserts new land in the middle of slums to build high-rises, which was about gentrification, I guess? I felt like missed a lot of subtext in the stories. It could be that the stories were not very detailed, or that I'm simply deficient in understanding them. Among those that I did get, a few were simplistic, and had nothing deep to say. Like the story about a terrorist attack, which causes a character to go into shock, or a story about hypocrisy and puritanism in villages.
The stories are in general well-written. Some of the stories have fantastical, or dystopian or other sci-fi settings, which were quite unique and original. The story 'Black sari' is about a sari that absorbs the menstrual blood from the wearer. 'Abandoned rooms' is about a dystopian future where a class of women are genetically engineered to breed since humans cannot birth anymore. A story about how the governments inserts new land in the middle of slums to build high-rises, which was about gentrification, I guess? I felt like missed a lot of subtext in the stories. It could be that the stories were not very detailed, or that I'm simply deficient in understanding them. Among those that I did get, a few were simplistic, and had nothing deep to say. Like the story about a terrorist attack, which causes a character to go into shock, or a story about hypocrisy and puritanism in villages.
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