Read this while I was in Kerala at an extremely boring Ayurvedic treatment center. The premise is that the protagonist's mother, father, and brother die in a car accident leaving her with no immediate family. She quits her job, stops bathing, etc etc - all normal responses, if you ask me. Then one day her aunt, uncle and best friend stage an intervention, trying to force her to go a therapist for depression. Instead, she chooses to flee into the Connecticut countryside, and meet a bunch of people who randomly take her in for a few days.
The majority of the book focuses on these few days in the countryside. She meets and falls for a man who ends up being her host's long lost lover of sorts, but he ends up being engaged to someone else so they both lose out anyway. A short, unattractive man hits on her relentlessly despite her rebuffs. And her host's grandmother is diagnosed with a terminal disease.
Ultimately, she reveals the death of her family to her host, and she goes back to her home in New York to face the people she ran away from. I believe she pulls herself together and soon after that the terminally ill grandmother passes away. And the long lost lover breaks off his engagement and sends her a vague postcard.
The whole thing is written in a very odd way and I did not enjoy it. I can't even remember any of the characters' names and I read it two months ago. It's not a bad book, but the plot was very strange and the style was even stranger.
The majority of the book focuses on these few days in the countryside. She meets and falls for a man who ends up being her host's long lost lover of sorts, but he ends up being engaged to someone else so they both lose out anyway. A short, unattractive man hits on her relentlessly despite her rebuffs. And her host's grandmother is diagnosed with a terminal disease.Ultimately, she reveals the death of her family to her host, and she goes back to her home in New York to face the people she ran away from. I believe she pulls herself together and soon after that the terminally ill grandmother passes away. And the long lost lover breaks off his engagement and sends her a vague postcard.
The whole thing is written in a very odd way and I did not enjoy it. I can't even remember any of the characters' names and I read it two months ago. It's not a bad book, but the plot was very strange and the style was even stranger.
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