Half-English and all-privileged, Sophie Mol arrives in Ayemenem, India, after the death of her stepfather. It is told out of sequence, spanning several generations, with the bulk of the story centered around the childhood of Rahel and Estha, fraternal twins who are separated at the age of seven after the death of their cousin, Sophie Mol. The God of Small Things is Arundhati Roy's bitter, funny, and heart-wrenching novel about the ruin of an Indian family through a mesh of tradition, prejudice, politics, and the meddling of a bitter spinster great-aunt. They don't deceive you with thrills and trick endings." The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. "It didn't matter that the story had begun, because Kathakali discovered long ago that the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets.
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