Searching For Women Who Drink Whisky: Life And Love In India (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
This book was interesting. Packed full of history and cultural reference education. The beginning and the end of the book are a little hard to get through as they read a lot like a historiy book but the middle is GREAT! I enjoyed reading this book and thought it was great for someone who is familiar with travel memoirs. However, I would not use this book as an introduction to travel memoirs as it is a bit dry at parts. I prefer my travel memoirs to read more like a novel and this one doesn't. The story follows Miranda's travels to India as a Foreign Correspondent. Through her relationships with her neighbors and the friendships she created while there. The end of the Memoir focuses a lot on what she learned while in India, both about Indian culture as well as her desires for herself and her future. Miranda Kennedy lived in Delhi for 5 years as both a freelance correspondent and later working in Asia for NPR. This book was in the women's studies section at my library which is why I have missed it before. The book focuses on the women Kennedy meets, employes, and befriends during her stay in Delhi. But a women's studies book? No. There are descriptions of women struggling with marriages, motherhood, families, careers and general life as a woman in a country that is often ranked pretty high as one of the worst for women. But with all of this description, there isn't much analysis or explanation of feminist theory. This book might do better in the India travel section.Because that is what it is best at - giving an idea of what it was like for a white woman to live and work in Delhi. Taken at face value, it was interesting and enjoyable.
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Great insight into women in India although at times tedious.
—mona
