It’s good, I think, although I don’t know all that much about the history of India and Pakistan. But the general notion (I am trying to remember this right from the book; my memory’s already gotten fuzzy) is that Pakistan’s threatening to drop a nuke on Mumbai, and everything’s gone quite bonkers. India has the notion that the West will step in, but then the West is cyberattacked, in an unrelated matter, so all the news and internet goes to hell, and then in India and Pakistan the communications networks ALSO start to break down, and there’s a whole lot of religious violence between Hindus and Muslims. I think that’s the general idea. The author said he was inspired by all that stuff in 2001-2002, when there was that big military standoff between India and Pakistan — he said what really, really struck him was the extent to which everyone just tried to get on with their regular lives even though what was happening was utterly bonkers and scary.

Oh, I want to read all the books about apocalyptic India. 😀

Yeah, I was disappointed in it too, esPECially that she ended up pregnant. :/

It’s good! I picked it up on a whim, and it turned out excellent.

I’m absolutely terrible at not scattering crumbs into my book, and this weekend we had the special family crumb cake, which is particularly easy to scatter crumbs from. So I sensibly only used my ereader this Thanksgiving weekend.

Oh goody, so I’ll look forward to hearing about the Death of Vishnu.

Nnnnno. I don’t think so. I tend to think not.

I did, I had a lovely, lovely holiday! And now it is the season of Christmas!