I have just finished reading Meera Syal’s ‘Life is not all ha ha hee hee’. It wasn’t bad but it wasn’t very good either. The problem with most of the Indian writers I have read is that you’ve lost all hope by the time the story gets interesting. This book too, got somewhat interesting in its third quarter!! It didn’t have a storyline and like most of the Indian stories, it revolved aroud relationships; especially that of an Indian marriage. And of course the diellema of American born desis. That happens to be a very ‘in’ topic for writers these days.
So far I’ve read Meera Syal, Kavita Daswani, Anita Desai and Nisha Minhas so far from the Indian lot. Oh and Khushwant singh too but his books are a different story all together.
Any other recommendations?