Colors of My Dreams
Song of the Cuckoo Bird...
Amulya Malladi...The author of A Breath of Fresh Air, The Mango Season, and Serving Crazy with Curry describes an epic tale in her book "Song of the Cuckoo Bird". This is a fascinating journey of a bunch of social misfits living in an ashram in Southern India. The house they live in is called Tella Meda , the house with the white roof, and the dwellers range from the Guru of the ashram to a woman who ran away from a husband, to the daughter of a prostitute, a man whose children won't support him and so on and so forth. The protagonist, Kokila (means cuckoo bird in Hindi)) stands in the center of the story. Kokila came to Tella Meda when she was 11 years old, an orphan and a wife. When the time comes for her to leave for her husband's home (girls had to be mature before they could go to their husband's house), Kokila refuses and lives the rest of her life in Tella Meda itself. This book is about the decisions we make and how those decisions mold our lives. Amulya Malladi successfully describes the feel of what it is like to live in an ashram, the diverse people who come and go, and the poverty that engulfs those who reside there.
The only problem I have with this book is that there are too many characters that have similar names, and it is easy to get them confused with one another. Some of these characters are even unnecessary the author just eliminates them from the story entirely. My favorite chapter which I specially loved is about the ashram getting a television. All the ladies getting done ahead of time from their daily rituals to watch television was so fascinating :)
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Song of the Cuckoo Bird...
Amulya Malladi...The author of A Breath of Fresh Air, The Mango Season, and Serving Crazy with Curry describes an epic tale in her book "Song of the Cuckoo Bird". This is a fascinating journey of a bunch of social misfits living in an ashram in Southern India. The house they live in is called Tella Meda , the house with the white roof, and the dwellers range from the Guru of the ashram to a woman who ran away from a husband, to the daughter of a prostitute, a man whose children won't support him and so on and so forth. The protagonist, Kokila (means cuckoo bird in Hindi)) stands in the center of the story. Kokila came to Tella Meda when she was 11 years old, an orphan and a wife. When the time comes for her to leave for her husband's home (girls had to be mature before they could go to their husband's house), Kokila refuses and lives the rest of her life in Tella Meda itself. This book is about the decisions we make and how those decisions mold our lives. Amulya Malladi successfully describes the feel of what it is like to live in an ashram, the diverse people who come and go, and the poverty that engulfs those who reside there.
The only problem I have with this book is that there are too many characters that have similar names, and it is easy to get them confused with one another. Some of these characters are even unnecessary the author just eliminates them from the story entirely. My favorite chapter which I specially loved is about the ashram getting a television. All the ladies getting done ahead of time from their daily rituals to watch television was so fascinating :)
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