In the beginning, I was a little annoyed with Rakhee Singh, the main character in Kamala Nair’s debut novel, The Girl in the Garden. She leaves her fiance with “no warning, no explanation, no good-bye;…
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State of Wonder: Where the landscape is more compelling than the characters
Most of Ann Patchett's new book, State of Wonder, takes place in the darkest reaches of the Brazilian jungle, but it starts out in a very different place-the frozen Minnesota prairie. Marina Singh, a research…