Fiction
Verdict: Read it for the ending
Finally, a novel in which I have heard of the authoress before! I wrote a blog on Hangwoman before and it is a masterpiece. This novel is quite a different story. I won't say it's bad, but it's definitely a different flavor.
The protagonist of Meera's story is a blind man named Prakash. He's accepted his condition and developed his senses so much that people forget he's blind and that he's more capable at "seeing" than people who actually have vision. He is searching for his wife that disappeared long ago but still lives on as a specter in his mind. His best friend acts as his sidekick in his searches and Prakash has another relationship that he flirts with as he looks. They do find a woman who fits the wife's description, unfortunately, her mental state is not one that allows her to deny or confirm she was his wife. Different people decided that she was or wasn't Deepthi. Her father wants it to be her so badly that he denies reality to insist she is. But Prakash knows it isn't his wife and doesn't let anyone talk him into accepting it just to soothe his need.
The ending isn't all that satisfying in a way that everything is neatly tied up. Prakash ends up searching for the woman in his new relationship. You do eventually find out where Deepthi has been all these years. I won't say it's satisfying, but it does make sense.
I found the persistant references to blindness, being blind, and being able to use other senses a bit overdone. I'm guessing the authoress either did a lot of research or knew someone who was blind and was attempting to make the reader understand.
KR Meera is an author to be reckoned with. She absolutely knows how to pull her audience in and create a scene.
Read it!
~Becky~
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