{"id":43911,"date":"2018-05-17T11:12:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T15:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=43911"},"modified":"2018-05-17T11:22:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T15:22:01","slug":"heart-shifting-sea-library-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/heart-shifting-sea-library-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heart Is a Shifting Sea by Elizabeth Flock [in Library Journal]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Journalist Elizabeth Flock’s intention to write about “the Indian love story” \u2013 “because it seemed more honest and vulnerable,” especially when compared to her parents’ multiple failed marriages \u2013 began in 2008 when she first lived in Mumbai. Although a spinal injury unexpectedly sent her back to the States, Flock returned in 2014 to finish the book \u2013 her first \u2013 she started about three couples she calls “romantics and rule breakers”: celestially misaligned Veer and Maya, who live separate lives together; childless Shahzad and Sabeena, haunted for decades by infertility; and online-matched Ashok and Parvati, who marry as near-strangers and grow to love each other.<\/p>\n

While the majority of Sunil Malhotra’s narration is expectedly straightforward reportage of what’s on the page, Malhotra sprinkles the narrative with spot-on characterizations: a young woman’s shy agreement to marriage, a blustering father-in-law, a fortune-telling sage, an understanding doctor, and a sniping stepmother-in-law, among many others.<\/p>\n

Verdict<\/strong>: Western readers intrigued by distant cultures will appreciate the novel-like exposition here; literary purists might bristle at the visitor’s white lens through which the most intimate details are revealed.<\/p>\n

Review<\/strong>: “Audio,” Library Journal<\/em>, May 15, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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