A.’s Reviews > The Lowland > Status Update
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is 51% done
It took Jhumpa Lahiri 46% of the book, but she finally has all her ducks in a row. Gauri isn’t a bad parent, but she is an unenthusiastic, grudging one. That’s interesting narrative territory (finally!)
— Jul 03, 2020 07:13PM
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A.
is 66% done
Lahiri switching up perspectives here; first the mother, Bijouli (fail) and then Bela (more successful). Gauri’s departure; Bela grows up, goes her own way. Not bad; still muted.
— Jul 04, 2020 04:31PM
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is 40% done
Lahiri lands her first clean narrative punch—the death of Udayan. Her prose style is trying to be understated and powerful but instead still feels kind of pedestrian.
— Jul 02, 2020 02:26PM
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is 23% done
Wouldn’t be a Jhumpa Lahiri book without a halfhearted interracial sex scene!
— Jun 30, 2020 08:27PM
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is 18% done
The slow courtship of Udayan and Gauri. Lahiri still easing us into the narrative.
— Jun 30, 2020 02:10PM
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is 8% done
Basically one brother is turning into a revolutionary and tge other oneis turning into a little bitch
— Jun 28, 2020 06:11PM
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is 5% done
Started on a whim. Already kind of unrealistic, there’s a scene where anIndian father is proud of his children
— Jun 28, 2020 04:39PM
