When it comes to books, I am always drawn to fictional stories about humans and relationship set in rich Asian cultural and historical backgrounds. It is interesting to learn about cultural quirks, ancient traditions and local customs this way.
At home, I am alternating between three fictions by Asian writers (Kiran Desai, Arundhati Roy and Lisa See) – three books lying around and this is simply because none has grabbed my attention well enough.
One does piqued my interest in its references to Nushu, a secret writing used exclusively among women in southern China. I wondered too what “..front garden of the Ayemenem House, where she raised a fierce, bitter garden that people came all the way from Kottayam to see” with its patio planters and a marble cherub which “peed an endless silver arc into a shallow pool in which a single blue lotus bloomed” looked like.
But despite all this, my favorite read has nothing to do with anything Asian – culture or history and it’s written by an Irish man to boot!
Frank McCourt’s second autobiography is the book I read in the car on schooldays when I wait for the kids and as with his first book which I owned, I enjoyed his writing styles and looking forward to finishing this book.
What book are you reading now?
One of the best 
