PositiveHeavy Feather ReviewThe very consciously organized stories in Love Songs for a Lost Continent explore a range of themes from identity and sexuality, to motherhood and self-love—all written with a singularity that both unites the stories as a whole in their inherent longing, but which also gives them the space to be solo love songs ... Overall, the stories do feel heavy and dense—as if taking a tedious journey through the thick forest—frequently because of their Indianness and especially if you are a non-Indian reading it. But after reaching beyond the subtleness of caste tensions, Indian folklore, and non-defined Tamil words, it is the tightness of details, language, and concepts, combined with ordinary characters, that makes the collection a sublime read. And a great book with which to begin exploring the Tamil diaspora.
