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The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay
3.0

This book is about a girl Shalini and her quest to find a person whom she has known from her childhood days. This story shows how she finds him as well as what happens once she finds that person.

This book has interlocking events of flashbacks as well as present events. The book was tiresome to read and I found myself skimming the paragraphs and skipping the pages to read more.
There's nothing wrong with the writing style and the setting of the story. But it is Shalini who irritates me in the whole book.
She starts a journey to find a man and I felt that the journey itself is irrelevant to the book. Because she never learns anything in the journey. She starts and ends this journey at the same point. There's no character growth at all.
I gave up on this book at one point and DNFed it. But later I picked it up again and finished this book. And I am sure that I will not read this again.
Apart from Shalini, I think the theme of the book is thought-provoking and it's worth to read one time.