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Title: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Author: Jeanette Winterson
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, Random House UK
ISBN: 978-0-224-09345-3
Genre: Autobiography, Non-Fiction
Pages: 230
Source: Publisher
Rating: 5/5
We think we know life and what it has in store for us. We like to predict. We feel safe in its outcome. We pattern it for ourselves and intend to stick to the pattern. And then there are some for who life doesn’t quite work out that way and they then chronicle stories we read and want more. Jeanette Winterson…

Title: We the AnimalsAuthor: Justin TorresPublisher: Houghton Mifflin HarcourtISBN: 978-0547576725Genrre: Literary FictionPages: 144Source: PublisherRating: 5/5
If you think an author cannot successfully manage a book in less than 200 pages, then think again. Or better yet, read, “We the Animals” by Justin Torres. It is the kind of book that you will read once in a lifetime and with assurance I can say that you will be blown by it. We the Animals is a not a happy book (though it is infused with moments of happiness). It is neither…

Format:  Paperback

Publisher: Leadstart Publishing Pvt Ltd

No. of Pages: 326

Genre: Fiction
On reading this book, i realized it was all about the beautiful connection between a husband and his wife, a father and his daughter; a father and his son; and a grandfather and his grandson…. it was all about Bridging the distance… Reconnecting with people who mean a lot and about a family that is living in different parts of the world and their stories…. !! 

The book opens with  the protagonist waiting to meet his wife Amaya…

 
The book is about a girl, rather girls, and about how in a family of girls, each one is of a completely different personality. The book is also about siblings, the relationships , the mother daughter connection, and the impact Rains have had on this Sahni family.
Narrated through the voice of Kittu[Kirti], the tomboy of the family, the one girl who stands out from the lot, the one who has made it on her own, with grit and gumption.
The story is about Kiran who commits suicide giving…

Title : The Pleasure Seeker
Author : Toshani Doshi

Publisher : Bloomsbury
ISBN : 978-0-7475-9092-7

Every character in the story gives an impression of being a seeker of pleasure during this 300 page saga of a religiously staunch Jain family across three generations. The pleasure seeking begins from Prem Kumar the head of the family who harbors a dream to send his eldest son, Babo to London for the brighter future of the son as well as for their family business – the specialized paint factory. It passes on to…

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A SUMMER TO DIEwritten by Lois LowryPublished by Delacorte press, an imprint of Random House.Age: young-adultReviewed by Sandhya.
Two sisters : Molly and Meg. Very different persons. Both in their teens.
Molly is the older, tidier, prettier, golden-haired, outgoing, happier, more popular, cheerleader type. More like her mother in temperament. The one who wants to grow up to get married and have her own babies…babies to love and take care of.
Meg is the younger, messier, plainer, dark-haired, reserved, upended, difficult, not-easily-popular type. More like her father in…