Book Highlight: A Burning by Megha Majumdar

I picked up this book without any idea about the story. It is an interesting look at how the incentives of modern society can influence the marginalized. Very good read for a first novel.

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I finish reading the article, and begin again. I finish it once more, and return to the top of the column, over and over until the words become no more than balls of earth rolled by termites. I close my eyes, and the ground tilts, taking me with it...My head feels drawn to the earth, incapable of raising itself. So that is who he was, Purnendu. I listen to Uma madam's scolding in this posture of shame, until the posture is all I am.