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Ranee and her three daughters are all bound by the secrets,lies and knowledge of the abuse they suffered through the years. All have a voice throughout the book, each with totally different but no less heartbreaking perspectives. And the vicious generational continuum is center stage as it ensnares her granddaughter. The title speaks volumes. This is a psychological study of abuse. From the perpetrator to the multiple victims,all have issues large and small. I found it equally heart wrenching and uplifting as the four women come to grips with how their past shaped their present and their refusal to let it define their future.
Not an easy read but I thoroughly enjoyed it. May 16, Zaimah rated it it was ok. More like a 1. Predictable but that's not the worst part. It is the characters. They're all very one dimensional. There is very little change though the catalyst is there. And the eldest sister is just awful. Mar 11, Kavita rated it it was ok Shelves: I hate giving this book a low rating since Sejal Badani has written this from experience, and it is semi-autobiographical. The writing of abuse must have been cathartic for her, as writing and art often is. This is even a plot point in the book.
But despite this, I did not think this was a good book at all, though it did get interesting at some points. The first thing that struck me while reading is that this author knows nothing about India, except for saris and chai and some details of Indian f I hate giving this book a low rating since Sejal Badani has written this from experience, and it is semi-autobiographical. The first thing that struck me while reading is that this author knows nothing about India, except for saris and chai and some details of Indian food.
She even gets that wrong once or twice, referring to gulab jamun as gulab jambu. Didn't inspire confidence at all. She refers to the practice of sati as something that the mother witnessed and is quite common in India. But there have only been around 30 cases of sati since Independence, many of them being suicide rather than ritualistic sati , committed because of the lack of social structure for widows. This is by far the worst faux pas , but Badani constantly writes of India as a very different and worse place than what it really is. There are enough problems with sexism in this country, without her exaggerating things.
But more unrealistic than anything else is the name of the abusive father. He is called Brent. This very fact did not allow me to get into the book deeply. In an interview, Badani claims that she gave a 'Western' though actually Anglicised Christian, and not Western name to the abuser so that it gave a 'more universal feel' to the story. So now Anglicised or 'Western' as she prefers to call it, is the universal norm? In depicting one social issue, Badani has only raised another. The characters are also very unrelatable. Of the three sisters, one is a hot-shot CEO of a company and is filthy rich.
The second sister is a trophy wife and married to a hot-shot CEO. They too are filthy rich. It's a bit of an overkill and quite annoying. You can be rich without having to exaggerate the fact. The third sister is more interesting though also filthy rich. It is hard to get interested in the lives of these people or even get to know who they are because so often the story is told in short flashbacks. So you are not experiencing their joys and sorrows with them. Instead, it is one long essay on physical and emotional abuse. There are barely any happy moments and they just go from one emotional drama to the other.
At one point, the next generation female, Gia really? But no, just more of the same. More and more melodrama, until you simple don't care. The influence of Bollywood on Badani is pretty obvious! View all 6 comments. May 02, Kristy Miller rated it it was amazing Shelves: A warning to those who read this: This book contains depictions and descriptions of physical and sexual abuse, and the aftermath. Brent is in a hospital bed, in a coma. This event brings his family together at his bedside; his wife Ranee, and his three daughters, Marin, Trisha, and Sonya. But what appears to be a perfect family dealing with a tragedy has a lot going on underneath the surface, beca A warning to those who read this: But what appears to be a perfect family dealing with a tragedy has a lot going on underneath the surface, because Brent was a violent man.
As they wait for him to die, the culture of secrecy begins to backfire on these women, and they are forced to deal with the life and legacy of domestic violence, and what it has made them. This is quite a powerful book. The author tells the story from the point of view of these four angry, hurt, and sad women, and each of their voices are clearly developed. Brent never speaks a word, except in flashbacks that the women live through, but he is ever present.
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The author does an excellent job exposing the culture of silence, both from their Indian heritage and the secrecy that often goes with domestic abuse, and how the silence can continue to damage lives long after the abuse stops. Some people mention twists that they were surprised by, and that they may have thought were too much, but I saw them coming from a long way off.
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I have never experienced abuse, but I have read and seen enough about it to see them coming. They do not diminish the story. I get the feeling that this may be at least partially autobiographical, because it was written with so much compassion and understanding.
Occasionally the language was a bit melodramatic, but not overly so, and not to the point of annoyance. This was an excellent book, and one I think should be read widely. May 06, Kathy rated it it was amazing Shelves: Somehow, a Kindle First selection shouldn't achieve a 5 star rating. However, Trail of Broken Wings an excellent title shatters that unofficial rule!
Told with a brutal understanding of the effects of violence perpetrated on family members by a family member, the story elicits horror, disgust and, ultimately, healing There is such depth to the story that this reader wonders about the background of the author. Could a person not experiencing this childhood write with such clarity of thought about it?
Apr 05, Isa rated it it was amazing. Despite it's delicate subject this book is such a painfully beautiful story Trail of Broken Wings could've been a lot better in my eyes. It's about three sisters reuniting by their mother's side while their dad is in a coma. Throughout the book we learn about their broken family, how each person was changed from their experiences, and who they have become today.
As for the characters, they were meh. So boring and ughhhhhhhh! I couldn't connect to any of them nor did I care about their lives. The few twists and turns thrown at me weren't intriguing enough to keep turni EH? The few twists and turns thrown at me weren't intriguing enough to keep turning the page. Of course, I obviously did turn the page because I just needed to see how this crap was going to end. Overall, it was kind of predictable and I was still bored with this book. Not even a rock. This was a really powerful book, one that stopped me and made me think about it and my own life.
As I was making my way through this book, I became frustrated with how the characters were handling certain situations. The communication was so dysfunctional and I wanted to just shake all of them and tell them to get it together! But as I kept reading, something that Marin said caught my attention. I don't remember the exact quote, but Gia was sp This was a really powerful book, one that stopped me and made me think about it and my own life.
I don't remember the exact quote, but Gia was speaking to her about their situation trying not to give anything away and Marin comments that Gia speaks with the confidence of someone who's never been hit or abused. That stopped me in my tracks and really made me think about how abuse effects people.
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I realized that I was looking at these characters from my own perspective, never having suffered through abuse of any kind, I really had no idea how to relate to it. So I got rid of my judgmental outlook and paid closer attention to how each character was dealing with the pain of their past, broken as they all were, and at that point I couldn't put the book down.
It seems as though the author has some experience with this topic, and I applaud her for writing such a moving book that really brings up the emotional issues that go along with abuse. It certainly got me thinking about it, and I have a lot more empathy and a bit more understanding of the effects. Well worth the read. Sep 28, cameron rated it it was ok. Totally disappointed in this book. I finished it but could easily have stopped mid-way through. There was the opportunity here to really divulge the reality of generations of abuse but my god The characters were predictable, the progress of the plots of the three sisters, the mother and the grand daughter were so cliche as to be silly and the writing was phony as hell.
The neatly wrapped up endings were laughable to me. Perha Totally disappointed in this book. Perhaps young people might find this information new enough to be interested but there was no new insight for me. Dec 23, Siv30 rated it really liked it. That is the same blood that is in me, in your mother, in Sonya masi, in Trisha masi. So whatever you do, whatever happens to you, it affects all of us, because you have our blood. You are ours, my darling. Mar 16, aPriL does feral sometimes rated it liked it.
Three adult sisters, Sonja, Marin and Trisha, along with their mother, Ranee, take turns sitting at the hospital bed of their father, Brent. None of them love Brent, but otherwise, their feelings are constricted and messed up. The doctor comments on how faithful and full of love they must be as a family because more than most, one of them is there every day. Wordless, they become silent and look at their feet.
Will they ever have the courage to talk about the elephant in the room - Brent's abuse Three adult sisters, Sonja, Marin and Trisha, along with their mother, Ranee, take turns sitting at the hospital bed of their father, Brent. Will they ever have the courage to talk about the elephant in the room - Brent's abuse?
With the exception of Sonja, all of them are married. However, every one of them is unhappy and still struggling with the effects of their father's abuse. Their marriages are full of secrets and lies because they have never spoken of the hitting and the slapping, the bruises and the name-calling. Marin's daughter Gia struggles to keep up with Marin's rigid exacting demands of scholastic excellence, no excuses, as Marin works and works and works, climbing the ladder of career success after success.
Trisha's smile rarely falters as her house and body are kept as beautiful as she can manage with the wealth her husband provides, her life kept smooth and efficient and perfect, but childless. Sonja finally left home after she told her father she would not go to college and study to be a lawyer, but instead she wanted to be a photographer, and her mother told her she should have aborted Sonja. However, Ranee spoke under compulsion, prodded by Brent to reject Sonja. They all have seen Brent beat Ranee bloody. Now Brent is on a ventilator, near death. As the days go by, and they speak of 'pulling the plug', each of them suddenly finds they are in crisis, coming apart.
Continuing the pretence this family is normal does not work anymore.
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The father's abuse has been a poison killing all of them. Can they fix it? The novel is not graphic, but it is a good psychological study. Nov 03, Kat rated it it was ok Shelves: The best thing about this book is title. Trail of Broken Wings is a beautifully written novel about a horrible topic—domestic abuse. The book tells the story of an Indian family living in America.
The chapters alternate between the accounts of the three sisters and the mother. Marin, the oldest daughter and the overachiever of the family, Trisha is Trail of Broken Wings is a beautifully written novel about a horrible topic—domestic abuse. Marin, the oldest daughter and the overachiever of the family, Trisha is the middle child and the beloved one, and Sonya the youngest of the sisters. Each one of them recounts their lives, their memories, their abuse under the hands of their father, and how they have come to cope with it.
She makes it almost easy to read about domestic abuse because her prose is so beautiful. They become so in the passing moments of life.
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