{"id":50043,"date":"2022-11-30T12:12:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T17:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=50043"},"modified":"2022-11-20T09:53:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T14:53:49","slug":"the-earthspinner-by-anuradha-roy-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-earthspinner-by-anuradha-roy-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Earthspinner by Anuradha Roy [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-49900\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/10\/Earthspinner-Anuradha-Roy-BookDragon-1-530x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/10\/Earthspinner-Anuradha-Roy-BookDragon-1-530x800.jpg 530w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/10\/Earthspinner-Anuradha-Roy-BookDragon-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/>*STARRED REVIEW<\/strong><br \/>\nSarayu (just Sara at her English university) has a scholarship so tight that she dreams of telling her benefactor how \u201can extra hundred pounds would make not the tiniest difference to his life but would transform [hers].\u201d She finds comfort \u2013 not to mention tea and fat, chewy ginger biscuits \u2013 in a church basement pottery studio. Sara\u2019s obvious familiarity with clay dovetails the narrative back to her Indian childhood, where her family\u2019s story intertwines with that of Elango, Sara\u2019s auto-rickshaw driver to school as well as her pottery teacher.<\/p>\n<p>Elango\u2019s creation of a spectacular terracotta horse, decorated with calligraphy by the Muslim woman he loves, results in horrific tragedy, which Sara believes she might have caused. Her reunion with Elango in London forges this book\u2019s provenance: \u201cWork with whatever earth you get. A potter knows how to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anuradha Roy\u2019s latest finds an ideal narrator in versatile British Asian actor Maya Saroya, who impeccably endows each character with distinctive personalities: evolving Sara; headstrong, resolved Elango; enigmatic, desperate fellow student Karin; Sara\u2019s elusive mother; and her practical father. Most heart-wringing is Chinna, Elango\u2019s beloved found puppy who binds so many lives together. Roy is undoubtedly affecting on the page, but Saroya elevates her text to remarkable achievement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Earthspinner-\/pid=9767172\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Media,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, October 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*STARRED REVIEW Sarayu (just Sara at her English university) has a scholarship so tight that she dreams of telling her benefactor how \u201can extra hundred pounds would make not the tiniest difference to his life but would transform [hers].\u201d She finds comfort \u2013 not to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,81,330,6,52,6535,17],"tags":[6431,6608,6668,10620,10,51,10621,39,55,173],"class_list":["post-50043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-audio","category-british-asian","category-fiction","category-indian","category-repost","category-south-asian","tag-anuradha-roy","tag-bookdragon","tag-booklist","tag-earthspinner","tag-family","tag-identity","tag-maya-saroya","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-religious-differences","tag-travel"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - 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