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Small Days and Nights: A Novel
Small Days and Nights: A Novel | Tishani Doshi
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A captivating and clear-eyed story of two sisters caught in a moment of transformation, set against the vivid backdrop of modern India. Escaping her failing marriage in the United States, Grace Marisola has returned to Pondicherry to cremate her mother. Once there, she receives an unexpected inheritancea property on the isolated beaches south of Madrasand discovers a sister: Lucia, four years older, who has spent her life in a residential facility. Settling into the pink house on its spit of wild beach, Grace builds a new and precarious life with Lucia, the village housekeeper Mallika, the drily witty Auntie Kavitha, and an ever-multiplying band of dogs, led by the golden Raja. In the lush wilderness of Paramankeni, with its vacant bus stops colonized by flying foxes, its temples shielded by canopies of teak and tamarind, where every dusk the fishermen line the beach smoking and mending their nets, Grace feels that she has come to the very end of the world. But her attempts to leave her old self behind prove first a struggle, then a strain, as she discovers the chaos, tenderness, fury, and bewilderment of life with Lucia. In fierce, lyrical prose, Doshi presents an unflinching portrait of contemporary India, exploring the tensions between urban and rural life, modernity and tradition, duty and freedom. Luminous, funny, surprising, and heartbreaking, Small Days and Nights is a story of the ties that bind, the secrets we bury, and the sacrifices we make to forge lives that have meaning.
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Hazel2019
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Thanks for the tag @EadieB 😁

#ThoughtfulThursday @MoonWitch94

1. Cherries! Sweet or tart! Could eat them all day 😄

2. Favorite book is tagged above - Small Days and Nights with plenty of summer in it ☀️

3. Dolphins swimming with a cruise ship 😍

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EadieB @Hazel2019 Thanks for playing! 4y
MoonWitch94 Mmmm cherries 🍒 thanks for playing ⛵️🍉☺️ 4y
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Hazel2019
Small Days and Nights | Tishani Doshi
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#7Days7Books

Day 3

I received Small Days and Nights as an ARC from Powell‘s #Indiespensable subscription. There‘s something really real and raw about this novel. Another one that has stayed with me.

Picture is of the author holding her book (off internet).

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Lauren.Archer
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This was a lovely story about a woman who decides to move back to India after her mother dies and she finds she has a sister with Downs Syndrome to care for her. Right is just so lush.

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LauraJ
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Once I get out from under the beasties, I‘m taking this book to bed.
#catsoflitsy #24b42020

Texreader Awwwww! ❤️😻 5y
Meaw_catlady 🥰🥰🥰 5y
Alora How cute! 😍 5y
Soubhiville I love that little face! So sweet. 5y
JenReadsAlot Omg that face 😻 5y
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Small Days and Nights is a gorgeously written novel of a Indian Italian young woman who finds she has inherited an older sibling she did not know existed who has Down's Syndrome. Gracia struggles with her return to India, off kilter as an outsider surrounded by strangeness. The language by this poet author is gorgeous while the story is slow paced at times but with some deeply tragic moments highlighting her vulnerability in her setting.

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Hazel2019
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There is so much here! A woman comes to India to bury her mother. She receives a house & land as inheritance and learns the secret her family has kept from her. She decides to make the house her home and the book is her journey to figuring out her own path. The book focuses a lot on relationships, sacrifice, sense of belonging, meaning. It contrasts modern & traditional India. It is beautiful, raw, and unexpectedly crude at times. I loved it. 5 ⭐️

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Hazel2019
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Nothings been catching my interest in the past few days. Started five different books and nothings sticking. Hoping that this will be different - excited about this #ARC.

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PNWBookseller85
Small Days and Nights | Tishani Doshi
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This one comes out in the US in January. It‘s a beautifully written, quiet novel about a woman returning to India and her family after living in America. It‘s not political. It‘s a family story and a story about finding purpose in the small things. I loved it.

Tamra Sounds great! 5y
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PNWBookseller85
Small Days and Nights | Tishani Doshi
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Autumn 🍂 weather, pumpkin bread, tea, and a book that I‘m loving.

DrSabrinaMoldenReads How delightful 5y
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