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Milk Teeth

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I do find this writing incredibly meaningless and annoying - it's Instagram writing, all style (poor, superficial style) and no substance at all. I think what I mean is, there were certain passages that felt slight too navel gazing and, dare I say it, overly written? It was so easy to just carry on and on with the reading until, before you know it, the final page has arrived. much of andrews' skill lies in her ability to subvert our expectations and challenge us with devastatingly sharp, sporadic sentences laden with rich, lyrical images, metaphors and motifs that immediately disarm us emotionally.

I know I am not supposed to put my need in you but it spills from my lips and bursts over your body, soaking you in want. Resigned to her fate, Skalde fills her days reading, writing and trying to live under her reclusive mother’s rules, until one day, from seemingly nowhere, a girl named Meisis arrives and Skalde decides to go against Edith’s wishes by bringing her in. The setting seemed familiar, as it will to every urban middle-class Indian, with friends and mothers spending afternoons in each other’s houses, money plants growing in empty bottles of imported whisky, and the ever-expanding class and communal divides in our cities.There’s a delicate balance throughout the novel between the tight, restrictive control of the protagonist and the indulgence she’s attempting to embrace. The book captures the changing spirit of Bombay/ Mumbai through political events and the (re)development of its urban landscape that provides a backdrop to the story of Ira and Kartik. Dynamics of class, caste, religion, sexuality and more come up and intertwine which each other before they're swept underneath the carpet again - but the lump is now forever visible much like the warp on the nice notebook of Ira's which met with the rains. But mostly, I was mesmerised by how she could move me with her words, the poetry in her language, the beauty in her metaphors. A girl grows up in the north of England amid scarcity, precarity and the toxic culture of heroin chic, believing that she needs to make herself smaller to claim presence in the world.

This is reflected in the language, each sentence feeling like a bevy of sensation without a single word wasted.At one point her well-intentioned, poetic but unintuitive boyfriend attempts to sooth her by dismissing her attitude towards food as "not a big deal.

Few doubts as to their compatibility remain till the very end but the end also contains surprises, heartbreaks, social norms and truth.An intimate exploration of class, precarity, sex, power and, above all, of the fragility and exuberance of love. While reading it almost felt like 75% of the text was filler and did not give me a reason to continue investing time into.

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