One Amazing Thing (Paperback)

from yggdrasil

One Amazing Thing is a modern Chaucer for the post-9/11 world. It's an enchanting read that manages to weave many different stories together against the backdrop of a natural disaster. An intriguing twist is that a majority of the individual stories take place or deal with India, but not just Hin...

from AnnaBonnema

I enjoyed reading this book for the early reviewers program. As mentioned by others the timing of this book (the Haiti earthquake) was a bit eerie and prompted me to pour over it and treasure every detail. The story is beautifully written and was difficult to put down. A group of unrelated people...

from jmchshannon

I finished this book the day after the news about the Haiti earthquake hit the airwaves. This true-life event made the situation faced by the nine characters within the book that much more realistic and dangerous. One never knows what one will face in life, and these characters hammer that point ...

from stonelaura

ONE AMAZING THING is a slim novel that packs an emotional punch in an engrossing and easy-to-read style. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni has fashioned an imaginative way to create what are, in essence, short stories, and has unified them by forcing her characters together in an extreme situation. The ...

from BookConcierge

3.5***When an earthquake strikes, nine people are trapped in the basement of the Indian consulate: an upper-class Caucasian couple with a troubled marriage, a young Muslim-American man with a tendency to act rashly, a graduate student whose parents have returned to India, an African-American Viet...