PositiveThe Hindu (IND)Doshi has dwelt upon womanhood and location before, especially in her collections of poetry, Countries of the Body and Girls are Coming Out of the Woods. Themes that were explored with a sense of urgency and rage in the poems are laid out in considered, melancholic patterns in her new novel ... Unlike the redemptions offered by popular cinema, here characters swim to shore while trapped in a web of big and small abandonments and betrayals, trying to weave friendship into the semblance of an anchor.
