Let’s chat: A SUITABLE BOY by Vikram Seth

For April, we will be reading A Suitable boy by Vikram Seth. I feel that reading this book is a true rite of passage for a Southasian bookworm. It’s heavy and artfully complex in its characters and themes explored. Start reading as soon as possible because it’s a paperweight!

Book description:

“Vikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: the tale of Lata's - and her mother’s - attempts to find a suitable boy for Lata, through love or through exacting maternal appraisal. Set in the early 1950s in an India newly independent and struggling through a time of crisis, A Suitable Boy takes us into the world of four large extended families and spins a compulsively readable tale of their lives and loves. A sweeping panoramic portrait of a complex, multi-ethnic society in flux, A Suitable Boy remains the story of ordinary people caught up in a web of love and ambition, humor and sadness, prejudice and reconciliation, the most delicate social etiquette and the most appalling violence.”