The Lowland in Reading with Style

Jul 03, 2013 Elizabeth (Alaska) rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 5-star-reads, kindle

I purchased this on the basis of having read the author's previous works. I knew nothing about this, and it didn't matter to me that I'd want or need to know. Having read her other works, I expected this to be infused with the immigrant experience. Yes, there was much that takes place in the US. Yet it is not the differentness of coming to a new country that matters in this.

He didn't belong, but perhaps it didn't matter. He wanted to tell her that he had been waiting all his life to find Rhode I

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Sep 09, 2013 Joanna rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: passport, rws-2015-spring, 2015-read, audiobooks

I think Lahiri's best form may be short stories. This novel dragged and the characters always remained quite distant. Perhaps I just don't understand the cultural underpinnings well enough to understand the motivations and actions of these characters, but none of them ever made much sense to me. I believe Lahiri is a talented writer, but I did not love this book the way that I hoped I would.

The narrator for the audiobook did a fine job and I would listen to other things he reads, but I won't go ...more

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May 29, 2013 Juniper rated it really liked it

Shelves: owned, 2014-books, arc

alright...so i was going to give this 3-stars, but it already feels like a book i will be thinking about for a while, and when that happens, i usually bump up my rating. so really, i am just saving a step. at the moment, i am having trouble deciding on my feelings for this novel. lahiri's writing is great. there was one moment in the story that actually made my eyes leak a little bit. but, my current mood is not great, kinda melancholy. and this book is pretty melancholy. so this is making for c ...more

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