The Bollywood Bride

The Bollywood Bride

2015 • 308 pages

Ratings5

Average rating3.8

15

So, I've recently finished Bessel van der Kolk's The Body Keeps the Score, and then found myself quibbling at traumatized characters in fiction who were not acting traumatized like the people described in psychologist van der Kolk's book. Not so with the Bollywood bride, which I'll give 4 1/2 stars because, despite some plausibility gaps that bothered me a tiny bit, I found the depiction of trauma in the main character utterly believable, and was there with her for her journey toward wholeness, supported by realistically-reacting people who loved her in a real way.
(But I still don't get the title. I mean, she's not the bride.)

January 21, 2024