Fiction
Verdict: Meh
I have not read anything previous by Usha K.R. It's been so long since I've been to the bookstore that I honestly can't remember if this was a recommendation or simply had a nice cover. Who knows.
Boys from Good Families follows a privileged young man through his life, first in a house with servants somewhere in a village in Karnataka, then on to the US, then eventually back to that same house after his parents die and the house needs to be dealt with.
There are so many themes in this book that I have read before that I almost felt that I HAD read this book before. But I know I haven't. The son who goes away to the US to find himself or make money, the love story about falling for one of the servants and how that's completely unacceptable, having property that you don't particularly want in a country you don't want to live in but it's still yours and your responsibility to take care of. Siblings who also want and feel they have a right to share in said property. Marriage that ends in disaster because the person they married to turns out to have no ambition, care, nor morals. I could go on. The themes in this book definitely aren't ground breaking ones. It's simply but well written.
I didn't not enjoy reading this novel, but I certainly struggled to find anything unique about it that I did enjoy. The characters and experiences need more depth and less stereotyping.
Not a bad novel, but nothing groundbreaking.
~Becky~
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