The Association of Small Bombs: A Novel

National Book Award Finalist
Winner of the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award
Winner of the American Academy of Arts & Letters Rosenthal Family Foundation Award
Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Award
Winner of the Bard Fiction Prize
One of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year
One of Granta's Best Young American Novel...show more

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288 pages

Average rating: 6.36

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Rena M Led
Dec 09, 2023
8/10 stars
So well written. I could see India. But the storyline lagged in a couple of places. The characters are not wholly loved.
E Clou
May 10, 2023
6/10 stars
This novel is about terrorism in India, both the victims and the terrorists themselves and their relationships. The novel is brilliantly written and the author is apparently a hardcore literary genius. The author's descriptions of grief are moving and real.

My only issue is that there's a little shark-jumping at the end that I suppose is actually a metaphor? I hope it is, but it still put a damper on the overall experience for me.

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