This week we are so excited to invite Sri Ramesh of Brown Girl Bookshelf to chat with us! Last week, Neha and Shruti got into some of their critiques of The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, and this week, Sri is here to tell us what she loved about. Will she change our minds?
We also talk more broadly about Sri Lankan literature, the Booker prize, book endings, and our reading idiosyncrasies.
Links
What Makes a Book a 'Classic'? [The Novel Tea Newsletter archive]
Books
A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam
Story of a Brief Marriage by Anuk Arudpragasam
Brotherless Night by V. V. Ganeshanathan
The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Goodbye Vitamin by Rachel Khong
Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones: A Memoir by Priyanka Mattoo
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran
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