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My 6th #10beforetheend book

This was Kunzru‘s debut and while I think it shares themes with his later work regarding identity, race, and class, it‘s more conventional.

Moving from India to England to Africa, the story is Dickensian in scope. Pran is an Anglo-Indian boy who can pass for white. Circumstances put him on the streets, forcing him to adopt new identities to get by. He‘s always chasing after belonging, but underneath he is hollow.

#weekendreads

Unfortunately I have a (for me) busy four day weekend. Tis the season…ugh 😂 Nonetheless I should be able to finish at least two of my currently reading books.

The Library Book - #Roll100
The Impressionist and Home - #10beforetheend
Impossible Fortune because my library hold came in, though it could also work for #ChristmasCrimeChallenge

Today's library book sale haul! $19 for 6 hardcovers is not bad. #bookhaul

@alanacristin aroused enough FOMO that I roused myself and ventured out in the sweltering heat and humidity here in Tokyo to go to a book sale on Saturday. This was one of my three finds. I loved Kunzru's White Tears and consider it one of my top reads of the year and one of the most important novels ever written about America. So I want to read all of his earlier stuff.