This was a tough read even though it’s quite a short book, it took me a while to get through it. There’s a lot to absorb. You know in the beginning that the narrator escapes from her abusive marriage in the end but that barely takes the edge off it. It’s still alarming to watch the things she goes through. The book is a very good illustration of how “Why didn’t she just leave him?” is never as simple as it sounds like it should be. The book is set in India, and it might be tempting for those of us elsewhere to think that a lot of the issues here are cultural, but I think we’d be wrong to do so. The story is, sadly, universal.