A review by sillylittlefox
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

2.0

I started reading this early in the summer, and damn, I just can't make myself pick it up again. This book is depressing and disturbing, though not in the good ways that often make me want to continue reading. The author does not make me want to find out what happens to the characters, and the characters themselves are really not that interesting anyway. I often find stories that follow the colonial legacies interesting and worth reading to see how cultures deal with the ravages of having been colonized, but this book just felt sorry for itself without doing much else. Read [book: Wide Sargasso Sea], or [book: The White Tiger], or any number of other texts that explore colonialism, but manage to do so in interesting and stimulating ways.