2013 Summer Reading Assignment: "Motherland"

2013 Summer Reading Assignment: "Motherland"

Motherland Novel Rating: 9

Motherland is a novel about a fifteen-year old Indian girl named Maya, living in the United States, who is sent to India for the summer months of June, July, and August to spend time with her family in the tea hills above Coimbatore. Before the trip, Maya had different points of views on her family like for example, she thought she wasn't really close to them, and she also thought that her mother sent her to India alone just because she doesn't love her daughter. Meanwhile, Maya decides to spend time with her family and most of all, her grandmother, a terminally ill patient and as the story progresses, her grandmother's health deteriorates and so Maya spends the best of time with her, and Maya eventually solves her family problems with the words of her grandmother, and eventually, her grandmother dies at the end of the story. The theme of this novel is family love, because this is the story of how a teenage girl's love and affection increased forever through spending time and having fun with them, and so Maya, in this case, has gotten closer to her family and she stays in touch with them very often.