SOURCE: "Mother Tongues," in The New Yorker, June 23 & 30, 1997, pp. 156-59.
[Updike is an American novelist, critic, essayist, and short story writer. In the following review, he lauds Roy's achievements in The God of Small Things despite what he considers her "overwrought" passages and self-conscious "artiness."]
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