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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Enter and Explore,
By J. Stokley Grimes (Berkeley, California United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Junglee Girl (Paperback)
An acquaintance recommended this book. I read it twice and bought four copies for friends. It is thoroughly delightful and engaging. Plus, if one is so inclined, there is plenty of nourishment for the mind. The prose is robust and vital. The narrative voices are confident, assertive and self-assured. Most refreshingly, the language is unadorned and free of the mannerisms so much in vogue in today's fiction. The stories are very readable. Economy and subtlety are Kamani's stock in trade. These are dramatic multi-layered stories: We meet conniving lovers: voyeurs; girls exploring new found sexuality; servants testing the limits of social tethers; a mother fighting off her son's predatory lover; beauty salon patrons arranging for special home services; a blind cat with exotic propensities: a bride who rebels on her wedding day. The tales, nested within and influenced by the hierarchical restraints of Indian religion and nationality, impart Kamani's theme of the "sexual body." The story "The Cure" echoes Lewis Carroll and Franz Kafka: Is the ever-growing "jumbo girl" an Alice; is she the transformed Gregor Samsa; is she asserting her sexual prowess to escape from oppressive conditions; is her growth solely physical? Intriguing questions. No easy answers. Like turning corners into alleys of ambiguity and paradox. Enter and explore.Five stars.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Sexuality for all,
By Anjuna Wagner (anjuna@mills.edu) (Oakland, California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Junglee Girl (Paperback)
Kamani's book of short stories addresses the sexuality of women, and often of young girls in the context of either being in or from India. It includes all kinds of sexuality and heirarchies of power that both arise and fall away when girls explore this aspect of their lives. Very powerful, sometimes shocking, but always rings with truth.... I reccommend this book highly, but be aware that the truth is not always a comfortable thing to look at.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Intriguing look at womens life in India,
By Ted Veach (Seattle) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Junglee Girl (Paperback)
Ginu Kumani creates a colorful and bizarre picture of women's sexuality in India. Many stories bring to light an interesting relationship between the young woman character, and her family as well as her coming to terms with her sexuality. I recommend this book for the light is sheds on the suppression of sexuality in India.
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