Nectar in a Sieve.

Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya is a realistic fiction about a woman named Rukmani looking back at her life. Overall, I think this book was extremely depressing. Throughout the whole book Rukmani's situation gets worse and worse, yet she still hopes for it to improve. It was very upsetting that there was so much poverty in the town, and nothing was really being done to fix it. Kenny tried to help as much as he could, but reading about that much poverty is extremely disheartening. Living in America, not many people are exposed to things like that very often, so reading this book was a shock, even though things like that go on every day in other countries.
I found it very interesting that Irawaddy's husband would return her to her family simply because she did not have his child. It was also odd that he could just RETURN her, like she was just an item bought in a store. Since I am used to seeing people get married because they love each other,......

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Title: Nectar In A Seive
Approximate Word Count: 801
Approximate Pages: 4 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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