Helpful Score: 2
I really wanted to like this book but there was too much information about language that I personally did not have any interest in which took away from the rest of the story. I give her credit in that this was a different travel memoir than most because it discussed all this language stuff but I kind of like the typical travel memoir describing a person's experience in a new place. I just did not get enough of that in this book and wanted more stories and descriptions of India. She did have some great stories but I would have preferred if they were in more depth rather than going off on a tangent about language. If you are interested in the nuances of language, you would probably enjoy this book. I did enjoy the historical and political information in the book, especially about the Muslim-Hinduism relationship. I visited this region of India and was not at all aware of the tensions between these groups, so this was an eye-opener for me.
Lisa (maikai) -
This interesting chronicle Katherine Rich details her yearlong experience learning Hindi in Udaipur. The book is sometimes a little difficult because it changes directions at times to explain the learning process of learning another language and learning sigh language.
