Alex’s Reviews > Island of a Thousand Mirrors > Status Update

One hand is curved around her belly, which swells under her sari skirt. Her breasts are heavy. She feels full of sap, like a plant with a seedling buried deep in the intricate unknown passageways of her body. Her feet are swollen, tender. The thongs of her rubber slippers stretched painfully over her arches have made her forswear footwear.

Her prose is very rich.

I like Mala's character. But I'm not sure if all those things were there in the 1950's