India Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/india/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:26:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg India Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/india/ 32 32 38398750 The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/02/the-loneliness-of-sonia-and-sunny/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/02/the-loneliness-of-sonia-and-sunny/#comments Thu, 12 Feb 2026 08:16:24 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19497 I love Indian writers and fiction so was very excited for Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, but this story of two strangers from India who have been trying to make life in America work went all kinds of wrong for me. Sunny’s and Sonia’ families still live in India and are known […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/02/the-loneliness-of-sonia-and-sunny/feed/ 9 19497 Call Her Freedom https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/07/call-her-freedom/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/07/call-her-freedom/#respond Thu, 24 Jul 2025 07:49:23 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19247 A small village in the Himalayan foothills is the setting for Tara Dorabji’s debut novel, Call Her Freedom. Aisha’s mother is a midwife and teaches Aisha all about childbirth and herbal remedies when Aisha is not in school. An outstanding student it’s been her mother’s dream to see her go to university in the city.  […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/07/call-her-freedom/feed/ 0 19247 The Museum of Failures https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/09/the-museum-of-failures/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/09/the-museum-of-failures/#respond Tue, 26 Sep 2023 07:50:17 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17884 It’s been years since Remy Wadia has been back to Bombay, where he was born and raised. It was his father’s fervent wish that he go to America for university and then settle there, which Remy did. Now, he’s returning to adopt a baby as he and his wife have not been able to conceive. […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/09/the-museum-of-failures/feed/ 0 17884 The Covenant of Water https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/05/the-covenant-of-water/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/05/the-covenant-of-water/#comments Mon, 01 May 2023 07:10:09 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17514 Abraham Verghese is back with a new novel 14 years after his critically acclaimed bestseller, Cutting for Stone. The Covenant of Water is a saga spanning 70 years about one family with an unusual history—in every generation there is a family member with an aversion to water who ends up drowning. Verghese uses this mysterious […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/05/the-covenant-of-water/feed/ 20 17514 The Book of Everlasting Things https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/01/the-book-of-everlasting-things/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/01/the-book-of-everlasting-things/#respond Fri, 27 Jan 2023 08:03:40 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17248 The Book of Everlasting Things is a multigenerational debut spanning the globe from India to Europe. Initially set in Lahore, India in the 1930s and 40s the novel encompasses 70 years in the lives of one Hindu boy and one Muslim girl. Two children, who despite different backgrounds, grow into love only to have it, […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/01/the-book-of-everlasting-things/feed/ 0 17248 Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/01/age-of-vice-by-deepti-kapoor/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/01/age-of-vice-by-deepti-kapoor/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2023 08:22:26 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17214 Anyone else remember the good old days of Sidney Sheldon, Penny Vincenzi, Nelson DeMille, any of those authors who wrote massive novels that were so stuffed with plot you couldn’t stop reading? Maybe it’s just my reading taste, but most of the longer novels I read now are literary fiction or historical. It was fun […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/01/age-of-vice-by-deepti-kapoor/feed/ 4 17214 Honor: A Novel by Thrity Umrigar https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/01/honor-a-novel-by-thrity-umrigar/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/01/honor-a-novel-by-thrity-umrigar/#comments Mon, 10 Jan 2022 05:05:03 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16393 When Smita arrives in Mumbai she thinks she’s there to help a good friend undergoing surgery. Otherwise, even as a global journalist, she has never returned to the country her family left when she was a teenager. Now, in Thrity Umrigar’s new novel, Honor, she’s forced to confront her past while coming face-to-face with another […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/01/honor-a-novel-by-thrity-umrigar/feed/ 13 16393 The Secret Keeper of Jaipur https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/06/the-secret-keeper-of-jaipur/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/06/the-secret-keeper-of-jaipur/#comments Mon, 21 Jun 2021 04:19:32 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=15816 There are many types of satisfaction to be found in reading. One is the excitement of a new voice, a compelling story. But just as good (and sometimes better) is the quiet joy of opening a book and being immediately returned to a place and characters you already know. That’s the case with Alka Joshi’s […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/06/the-secret-keeper-of-jaipur/feed/ 4 15816 The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/01/the-henna-artist-by-alka-joshi/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/01/the-henna-artist-by-alka-joshi/#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2021 05:59:22 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=15217 For ten years Lakshmi has worked hard to build her own business. Now, at 30, she hopes to use her connections among the wealthy women of Jaipur to score a financial payout large enough for her to finally finish her own home and bring her parents from their small village to live with her. They’d […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/01/the-henna-artist-by-alka-joshi/feed/ 6 15217 Five Best Debuts of 2020 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/12/five-best-debuts-of-2020/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/12/five-best-debuts-of-2020/#comments Mon, 28 Dec 2020 05:55:19 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=15174   Welcome to the last week of the longest year in history. I’m going to avoid any rehashing of what a nightmare it was for so many and stick to the easy stuff: my best books of 2020! Today I have five debut books that really stood out for me. Normally, I’d have more, but […]

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