A review by teaandtropes
The Windfall by Diksha Basu

4.0

I will say that this took me way longer to listen to via audiobook than usual, but on the same note I checked it out from my digital library again after the two weeks was up so I could finish the second half because I was compelled to know the ending. The ending was a little anticlimactic but ended very reassuring and almost sweet. It was a little bit of an open-ended response which I liked in this setting. The whole book is about Mr. Jha coming into wealth all of a sudden and how it changes his family and alters their motives and morals. He especially spends so much time caring about what others will think of him and his family and how he can impress their new neighbors and forgets what life was like when they were on the poorer side of town in an apartment that didn't ever work right with the same people he loved. It was a nice perspective to see someone get so caught up in the midst of it all and to be able to project yourself in that situation as well. It's a good reflective read and I might even read again someday which is saying something for myself.