Global Read 159 - Sri Lanka

There is a lot of cricket in this book. A lot. All the reviews seem to say that even if you have no interest in cricket you will still love this book. I liked this book a lot, but there was a lot of cricket and I found those sections dull. It took me a while to get into the book (probably because of all the cricket) but liked the second half of the book far more than the first. There was more plot and character development thrown among the cricket. One thing this book did really well was paint a really well developed background picture of the culture and tensions of Sri Lanka with very little information. I had to do some research, but overall I felt like I got a really good sense just from offhand remarks. CW for racism definitely. I did see that in my edition the name had been changed from its previous name which had a slur to this one, so I guess someone else realized it too. But the slur does appear in the book. W.G was a really fun if frustrating character, and overall the book was unique which is always exciting to find. Just so much cricket.