Doodle Lys Lys من عند K.Rayapuram, Tamil Nadu, الهند من عند K.Rayapuram, Tamil Nadu, الهند

Lovely and unpretentious (but, weirdly, almost too unpretentious for me), A Gate at the Stairs was a very good read but rather tough to slog through. Mundane life lumbers up and grabs you -- you feel like you'll never get free. And you don't. The last line of the novel, "That much I learned in college" defeats much of the beauty of the book. Is this just a coming of age tale? A life lesson? A novel of small tragedies but great ambition.

Well, personally, I think this book is more of an adult version so I do NOT suggest teens to read it, you'd get bored at the 10th page, like I did.