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Desai, Anita

The Village by the Sea

263 pp. | NYRB | April, 2019 | Paper ISBN 978-1-68137-351-5 $12.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-68137-352-2
Reissue (1982, Heinemann)
(2) YA Desai's gorgeous novel pulls readers in to the world of young Lila and Hari, struggling siblings growing up in the isolated Western Indian village of Thul; both the characters and the place are on the cusp of change. In lucid prose, Desai engages the senses, describing the sigh of the ocean as the tide turns; the children's drunken father snoring in a corner; the village women wading into the sea to meet the fishing fleet and then spilling baskets full of shining, slithering fish onto the sand.
Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2019

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