It possesses a heightened sensuality which reflects the protagonist's aspiration to live fiercely, "like lightning" - free of restraint . One scoured her city for news/topics of interest for the job she loved; other scoured the accounts/market for his too-demanding and tiring job. The diet culture discussed was equally devastating and hilarious, and I urge any 90s babies to read for these parts alone.

on the surface, milk teeth is another novel that deploys the millennial concerns of miscommunication, toxicity and two people who simply do not belong together - yet andrews' take feels fresh, invited and magnetic. as the two continue to navigate unsteady waters, can they trust each other fully to open up and show the deepest, darkest parts of themselves uncensored? I know I am not supposed to put my need in you but it spills from my lips and bursts over your body, soaking you in want. Despite these moments in which the narration is given the control that the narrator so desires, this novel is full. It is a coming-of-age novel set against the backdrop of redevelopment, liberalisation, and the 1992 communal riots.Unfortunately, rather than casting off her irritating writing style, she appears to have really doubled down on it. Concerned as it is with want and hunger, in all manifestations, each part of this novel represents the whole. This book oozes nostalgia as it's set in the 90's and if you are a 90's kid you'll probably relate to the story a lot more. They were two inseparable souls living around each other until college, after which their lives parted ways, one fell in love with a Muslim boy being Brahmin herself; other found out about his sexuality. However, sentences get shorter, more restrained, when they describe her denial: ‘you reach out your hand.

She’s also been surrounded by diet culture, including miss “oh wow that’s so lovely” Cassie from Skins and being taught that “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels”. Sublime descriptions of the city and its grandeur make the reader intrigued and proud at the same time. Also what happens in the in-between years forms the meat of the story and that is what lends the story its heft. A tide of sharply sensuous detail keeps the reader riveted as the book flows by in a series of candidly recounted episodes sustained by voice rather than plot. Living in this city, with its cacaphony and flaws, you tend to overlook the underlying beauty of the functional chaos of Mumbai as a whole, which the author seemingly captured perfectly.I marvelled at how similar our souls were, with her general moods of ambition and epiphany, nostalgia and melancholy.