Amy 
women's fiction
A mother dies and leaves written instructions for her three
daughters to travel together to their Indian homeland in order to enrich their
lives.
I was looking forward to reading The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters because I had read and loved Balli Kaur Jaswal’s previous novel, Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows. Sadly, this one did not meet my expectations. It’s basically a love letter to India and
holds value as a source to learn more about India and get travel suggestions. But,
while the story ends up being predictably heartwarming, most of the novel has
the excitement level of a travel guide instead of a story-driven narrative with
forward motion. It just stagnates. Bottom line, you meet the three sisters who
each have their own concerns and secrets, they travel to India where most of
their trip is an exhausting struggle, and they finally end up trusting and
caring about each other at the end. The
build-up to the ending was a slog. The sisters are each so self-consumed that I
did not care about any of them and their secrets all that much. I almost put
the novel aside at the halfway mark but it was a library book so I pushed
through.
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