hi everyone,
just curious about favorite authors and books by indian/south asian writers people have? I am looking to broaden my scope. my limiting factor is that i don't like books that are too sad and i tend to gravitate more to female characters/authors. i have read a lot of chitra divakaruni's books, Palace of Illusions was my favorite of her works. I loved Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies, and Rishi Reddy's Karma and other Stories. I also liked Monica Pradhan The Hindi-bindi club, it was a good read and had nice recipes! I also started to read Salman Rushdie's Luka and the Fire of Life which is amazing so far but i was interrupted (hope to get back to it soon!). Abraham Varghese's book Cutting for stone is also supposed to be good but i haven't read that either yet. so join in and let us know who you like (or don't like and why).