A review by jentidders
The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die: A Novel by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay

3.0

This is a fun, quirky and entertaining novella, which is at times a ghost story, a folk tale, a farce, and a satirical takedown of the patriarchy. My one niggle is that many family titles (which I assume refer to aunt, uncle, cousin, in-law, etc) were not translated, which sometimes made it a bit difficult to tell who was being referred to and what was going on. Nonetheless, it was refreshing to read a book that subverts the ideas about women in Bengali society, and I enjoyed this quick read.