Review Anita Nair weaves her story with the consummate skill of a born story-teller with hard to forget nuggets. Never once does the interest of the reader falter. She completely reinvents story telling. Lessons In Forgetting is a story of real people in a real but...
This is Nair’s fourth book and there is no doubt about one thing: she gets better with each one. … it’s all there in the book: cyclones and catastrophes, man-made and wrought by nature; love, dependency and betrayal, female foeticide, Page Three parties....
Lessons in Forgetting makes for a memorable read…. Nair writes with exacting precision about the disintegration of marriages among the middle-class…. With carefully orchestrated shifts in points of view, Nair describes how every woman has had to make painful choices...
Over her novels, Anita Nair’s finely delineated characters have got etched into our memories, especially the women. Meera and JAK, both caught up by unexpected disaster, add to that canon. The Financial...
With her latest novel Lessons in Forgetting, Nair has done just the opposite of writing something “that doesn’t demand intellectual or emotional engagement from the reader”. An intense look at marriage, parenthood, destiny and relationships, the book also packs in...
There is a place, somewhere between the complexity of highbrow literature and mindless prattle of chick-lit, where judicious stories of ordinary people can be told. Anita Nair slid into that place nine years ago when she published her breakout novel Ladies Coupe….Nair...
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