A review by half_book_and_co
The Atlas of Reds and Blues by Devi S. Laskar

4.0

The Atlas of Reds and Blues is a wonderful novel told in often quite poetic vignettes. Devi S. Laskar is a photographer and poet, too, and that comes through in her metaphorical language and eye for textual snapshots. The novel is about Mother, a US American women whose parents had migrated from South Asia. At the beginning of the novel, Mother lies shot by police on the pavement in front of her house. She tries to remember how she got there. The vignettes of her life are not chronological but jump between timelines. They tell a story about how microaggressions of all kinds slowly chip away on one's sense of life. Beautiful and poignant novel.