Review 422: Small Days and Nights

Small Days and Nights by Tishani Doshi
My rating: 2.5 of 5 stars

I wanted to like this book, but the main character, Grace, I could not connect with. Grace claimed it was hard to grasp her history and that's how the whole book felt, particularly about the main character. Grace is in her 30s, her marriage is failing in America, when her mother dies in India. Grace herself is half-Italian, half-Indian. Upon her mother's death Grace finds out she has a sister that has Down's Syndrome and has been raised in a care home.

Grace inherits not only a fairly large sum of money to live without working, but also a house along the beach near a small village. Here Grace brings her sister to live and care for her. But the monotony of the daily activities and the remoteness is too much so about once a month she goes into the city to visit friends for the weekend.

The book attempts to be about her parents, and her marriage but it seems to fall flat so often.