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“Do you want to meet a funny family bordering on crazy? Meet the D’Costas. Their head Don Theodore has just kicked the bucket.
Now that Theodore is no more, Rita, who is fighting for one last chance at the seat of Don in the family starts playing her cards, pitting her two sons Pedro and Jason against each other. But why is she noticeably dry towards her firstborn Pedro? Well, the answer to that you will find in the prologue. And you will have to read it carefully because Potkar believes in your intelligence. There is only a little amount of exposition in the book.
Strong characters make for strong stories. If the characters are flaky or one dimensional, the joy of reading a book, even if the story is interesting, is rendered half. The characters of this story are unpredictable, impulsive, multi dimensional and drive the story forward. It’s a delight to see a character-driven story because their actions are as interesting as the plot and the twists. This also makes up for layering of the characters, adding a touch of humanity to papery words and that’s just delightful. Rita D’Costa, of course is my favourite.
Rita D’Costa seems to be the cunning cousin of that famous petulant man Ove from the world of Frederick Backman. As the novel opens, we see her egging a man on to cut a tree. The birds there would make too much racket. About her the author writes:
“It wasn’t that Mrs. Rita D’Costa was heartless. At one point, she had loved lawns and gardens, enjoying the fluff and fur of rabbits and puppies and admiring the flutter of yellow butterflies. But that was when she was in her father Anton Joseph’s home. Now, and for many years before this, things had been difficult. Hard and cold as metal, where all soft things had gone elsewhere to roost.”
Reviewed by Rahul Vishnoi. Read the whole review on Goodreads.
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