The World We Found
by Thrity Umrigar
2012 / 336 pages
rating – 6.5 / contemp. fiction (love story)
Armaiti, Laleh, Kavita and Nishta, 4 women all around 50 years old, bound by old friendship and idealism from their college days in India’s version of the 1970s. Memories, love, politics, loyalty, love, death and dying, love. – yup – it’s a love story – lots of different kinds of love in the world – and these 4 women end up with very different lives.
The magical group based on radical politics which they had in college days split up for some reason and decades lapse before Armaiti , who by now is divorced and lives in the US is stricken with some kind of terminal cancer in her brain – she is refusing treatment. >>>> MORE>>>>