A review by zehra_nk
Teatime for the Firefly by Shona Patel

3.0

In the first half of the book, I strongly disliked Manik Deb. First, he compares his wife to a train bogie, then he compares her to a cigar and then he leaves her waiting in the middle of the night to engage in debauchery. But I understand that without a trace of these characteristics, he wouldn't be reminiscent of a man from the 1940s.

An enlightening read nonetheless, with vivid portrayals of the history of tea plantation in Assam and parts of East Bengal (now Bangladesh) in British India.