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Splintered Day

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Alarmingly acute, horrifyingly readable, startlingly chaste. - Fay Weldon

There is some real thought here - about race, love, urban life. - The New York Times

Urbane...frank and witty prose [which] follows an unruly narrative path, slipping from past to present with an engaging grace...The Splintered Day is a promising debut...that brings to mind the short stories of Mary Gaitskill. Like Gaitskill, V.K. Mina is a wry and empathetic illuminator of damaged life. - Lawrence Chua

Elle aime bien se nourrir de la chair de jeunes gens étourdis...Des fois, j'ai eu l'impression d'ętre en présence d'un double feminin. Beaucoup plus rusé et plus intelligent. L'oeil de l'araignée. - Dany Laferrière

Margaret Atwood meets Riot Grrl. Readers of Dale Peck's MARTIN AND JOHN might recognize distant parallels, although the skewed and kaleidoscopic framework here is more idiosyncratic. Mina has found a structure and several voices suited to the deadening, tiring and confusing use-or-be-used world she describes. As alert to heritage as she remains, Mina can come across as a queer-positive Henry Miller for the year 2000, a chronicler of the ways and means that desire and angst make themselves felt. - Publisher's Weekly

Moving and observant. I particularly like the way Mina depicts the way different parts/moments of life impinge on each other. A dry, Dawn Powell kind of New York novel, mixed with a Madame Bovary-ish search for glamourous romances. The handling of a Tamil/Indian woman's perspective was well-done, using South Asian culture without masalafying it.