Olga Baryshnikova Baryshnikova itibaren Kalaighata, West Bengal, Hindistan itibaren Kalaighata, West Bengal, Hindistan

This was one of those books I had always heard mentioned and was glad to have an excuse to read/listen to it. In some ways this book reminded me of Angela's Ashes - with the family doomed to an endless cycle of poverty b/c of the father's alcoholism and gambling. But this book (being fiction rather than an autobiography) was more hopeful than Angela's Ashes. I was very surprised at how modern the themes of the book sounded, considering it was written in 1943. The themes included premarital sex, war protests, racism, poverty, pedophilia, etc.