Funny how things come in waves; like the last
book I read, We Were Liars, Inheritance is haunted by mental
illness and more literal ghosts - and just a couple of days ago, there was “The Effect”, too, on mental disorders - although it locates them in a very
different setting, namely Singapore, 1970 to 1990, through the eyes of a
Punjabi family undergoing traumatic change seemingly paralleling that of the
young nation state itself.
Place comes to life; to a lesser extent time; there's a certain amount of telling rather than showing. The characters are cleanly drawn and easy to picture, including as they're coloured in further as time and events progress (Amrit and Harbeer in particular). And there's some nice writing and storytelling, even if both tend somewhat towards the simple and straightforward; all up, a nice novel.
