Noontide Toll by Romesh Gunasekara Geoffrey Bawa where Sally had been born

where Sally had been born and raised

a coastal city of South India and the bronze is a Sri Lankan style Hindu statue

super-tasty

and the gradual realization that it can't exist

Noontide Toll by Romesh Gunasekara Geoffrey Bawa where Sally had been bornVasantha is a van driver in Sri Lanka. After nearly three decades of conflict, the civil war is over and the country is moving tentatively into the future though at times the recent past seems too close for comfort. Entrepreneurial hoteliers have mysterious scars under their collars; Chinese businessmen looking to invest in scrap metal are led to gigantic scrapyards of abandoned bicycles; genial old soldiers are headhunted for brutal war crimes; young