There is the story line, and then there is the prose style. Both might, at first reading, bring to mind Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things. Here, though, point of view and tone is subdued. Evasion and narrative elision is maintained throughout The Blue Bedspread, which might leave some reade...
Of her blood, her sputum samples, the X-ray of her chest. There are cavities in her lung field, the presence of bacilli is confirmed, Kalyani Das is diagnosed with tuberculosis. ~ ‘Six to nine months of medicine,’ says Doctor, ‘she needs to have lots of fruits and fish, milk and eggs. Proteins.’ ...