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Milk Teeth

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much like its predecessor, milk teeth is a novel that forgoes traditional form structure and all barriers of language.

Our unnamed and heartbreakingly relatable protagonist skkkrt-ed through school and it’s webs of appearance guilt, before escaping to the big city of LDN for “new beginnings”. In the sticky Mediterranean heat, among tropical plants and secluded beaches, she must decide what form her adult life should take and learn how to feel deserving of love and care. In terms of writing style, the author sure outdid herself with metaphors and similes - these just became tedious. In the shimmering Mediterranean heat, she is faced with both pleasure and shame, and must find out if she is able to change. There are passages of aching sadness for this young woman: lost, self-destructive, longing to understand what she wants and needs from life and to be able to take it.You held a flame between your fingers and I wanted to swallow you, but I was afraid of the taste of my own desire, like bleach and petrol, peaches dipped in salt.

Her writing is striking – vibrant descriptive passages coupled with stark observations as our narrator struggles to understand what she wants, having spent much of her life running away from herself. If you enjoy a book in which every other sentence is an overwritten flowery, cheesy metaphor or simile, then this is the one for you. Living in this city, with its cacaphony and flaws, you tend to overlook the underlying beauty of the functional chaos of Mumbai as a whole, which the author seemingly captured perfectly. Despite these moments in which the narration is given the control that the narrator so desires, this novel is full. From the author of the award-winning Saltwater comes a beautifully told love story set across England, France and Spain.My new friends said things like, 'This park has a bad heart,' or 'the sky is falling down,' and I knew what they meant, lacing my fingers through theirs and running through the lavender dawn, our long coats flying out behind us.

Even more so when it's a newly released, debut novel which no one 'recommended', where you know that the expectations were based on some weird sense of your own intuition and not on anyone else's. I’m not gonna drop the horse talk because I don’t know where that’s come from and I’m also scared of horses.Ira Kamat and Karthik Kini have been friends since childhood, and are at a point where they have the chance to relook at their relationship.

But throw in ton of architecture jargon and an unexpected secret that there wasn't even a whiff of in the entirety of the book, until the last few pages made for a disjointed reading experience.

An intimate exploration of class, precarity, sex, power and, above all, of the fragility and exuberance of love. Although, one of the people is a arty, angular male named who provided a lot of horn over these pages, but then slowly shape-shifted into a controlling shadow. She is a girl who has passed her most competent years for marriage, leaving her mother in hopeless hope for a perfect groom. I am so impressed that I want to read everything Andrews has ever written - I have Saltwater downloaded as an audiobook, and it's now bumped up the priority list.

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