Status Updates From Climbing the Mango Trees: A...

The book just sort of ends.

Switched to the audiobook to multitask and not feel trapped by this book. The reader’s pronunciation of Indian words is inconsistent. Some sounds like the Indian dh seem hard for her. The a/aa vowels, she pronounces the same. Worse, however, she pronounced the English word agape as if it were Greek- perhaps understandable if this were not her *job*.

While I didn’t expect this book to be an account of the freedom struggle or the partition, it’s astonishing how little there is about both.