One Amazing Thing by Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniI started this book weeks ago--only a few pages and then left for India. I didn't want to take such a small book and a hard cover with me, ande since this is signed, I want to keep it.
Working through jet lag recovery, I picked it up again and had to start at the beginning. It starts fast, with a disaster forcing a group together and I wanted to read it until the end. It had my attention and enough drama to keep me involved.
Like Canterbury Tales, every one has a story and the first ones were told with pathos. And then the book stalled, as if the remaining character's stories weren't as important as the first ones--too bad as I could have read more, and wanted more detail and story telling. The ending left me uninterested and was disappointing. I really hate it when books have such good potential and squander it. I am rating this with three star because it was so good in the beginning and someone else might find it a better story than I did.
The title is about the stories of the characters lives--that we all have at least One Amazing Thing to tell another person about our life. I made it through grueling nights of bartending when I was in college by believing this--that every person who sat at the bar had one thing that they could tell me that made them fascinating. It kept me interested in every drunk who sat on the stool and I heard stories of amazement.
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