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(4) | 14 | "Fifty-year-old Robin Rowe returns to Dhaka, Bangladesh, her first visit since she was an exchange student there in 1970. The country, then East Pakistan, was on the brink of the war that led to its independence from Pakistan. Robin was repatriated just as the violence erupted, and as a result of the conflict, lost touch with her friends, and the Chowdhury family with whom she boarded that year.On her return visit, Robin discovers a shocking truth about her legacy in the country. A well-intentioned act she carried out ? thwarting an arranged marriage ? has resulted in disastrous consequences: suicide, torture and the disappearance of the beloved Luna Chowdhury.Overwhelmed with this news, she returns home to Salt Spring Island, BC to find the roof of her house has collapsed. As she deals with the reconstruction, she must come to terms with the consequences of her act in Bangladesh, as well as other unresolved parts of her life: the unexpected loss of her husband, Graham, a decade earlier, and her estranged relationship with her adult daughter, Surinder.Making peace with her mistakes and accepting the uncertainty of her future requires her understanding first the part she has played in the conflicts in her own life, and then becoming willing to engage with a world that is complex, unpredictable and sometimes as stubborn as Robin herself."… (mere) |
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Robin is a character that I just cannot relate to. She has a fierce stubborn streak in her that while at time not surprising for her 20-year old self to have, but not something that should carry on well into middle life. I mean, it does explain why she experiences some of the difficulties she encounters but overall, it was impossible for me to feel any form of sympathy for her.
The second half of the book jumps us forward 30 years and to Robin's return trip to Bangladash and then back to Salt Spring Island, BC, Robin's current situation and the memories she brings up. This part of the story didn't work for me as well as the first part did. The latitude and naivety I was willing to grant to young Robin had me wanting to grab the older Robin by the shoulders, give her a good shake and ask her what planet she thinks she is living on. I am not a big fan of 'what is wrong with me' introspective stories and definitely not when they carry a stubborn "I am right" approach to the analysis. That is how the second half of this book came across to me. I mean, there is pride and then there is just down right stupidity. Older Robin's response when she is offered a job that could help her out of a very tight financial predicament: Seriously!? Lastly, the book doesn't really have an ending. It kind of just losses momentum and then stops without closure on any of the major themes. That annoys me.
Overall, a good book for providing impressions of the lead up to the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War but other than that, this was not my kind of read, so I am probably not the best person to write the first review to be posted regarding this book on LT. Other readers will have to make their own judgement calls on this one. ( )