DMD's Reviews > Bitter Sweets

I was disappointed in this book. Perhaps I would have enjoyed it more had I not read better South Asian immigrant culture books. The book jacket claims that the lies a 13 year old illiterate tells to marry up shakes the foundations of the family in the next generations. In actuality, that could have been left out of the book altogether. It felt like the author was trying to throw all kinds of drama into the lives of this family, though you didn't really care about any of them even though they took turns narrating. The members didn't even really seemed to interact with each other until the very end which was presented all tied up in a big frilly bow.