I'd been meaning to get this for years, then, lo and behold, there it was at Goodwill.

Amazon Editorial Review

The story of the tragic decline of an Indian family whose members suffer the terrible consequences of forbidden love, The God of Small Things is set in the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India. Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, the twins Rahel and Esthappen fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family -- their lonely, lovely mother, Ammu (who loves by night the man her children love by day), their blind grandmother, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin), their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar, pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher), their enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt), and the ghost of an imperial entomologist's moth (with unusually dense dorsal tufts).

When their English cousin and her mother arrive on a Christmas visit, the twins learn that Things Can Change in a Day. That lives can twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever. The brilliantly plotted story uncoils with an agonizing sense of foreboding and inevitability. Yet nothing prepares you for what lies at the heart of it.

I still want to read this 1997 winner of the Booker Prize but it has been in my possession now for almost nine years. Perhaps one day I'll find another copy when the time is right for me and this book.

It's a small but lovely thing--finding a book you are ready to pass along and then finding a wish for it. This goes out to fulfill a wish.

Received from Cordelia-anne. Thank you so much!

I tried to get into this book, but just couldn't.

Released at the Little Free Library on Humboldt St. Please enjoy!