One Amazing Thing

One Amazing Thing by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni


My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This homage to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is a collection of tales told by a group of would-be-travelers-to-India who are trapped by an earthquake in the Indian Consulate of San Francisco, and who are trying to stave off despair as they wait for rescue.
Each tale is a story of love found and love lost: sometimes heartbreaking and sometimes slyly funny. Divakaruni is a master of beautiful language, and is deft in her characterizations.
Spoiler alert: I do have one complaint. I was disappointed by the novel's ambiguous ending. I had come to care for all the characters and I ended up not knowing if they would be rescued or not.

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