Londonstani/The shocking twist

So what exactly happened to Malkani. He starts the book off leading the reader down a intricately drawn path with subtle hints and clues built into the pavement. His descriptions of Jas & co. are coherent and reasonable. Even though the story is a little bit out of the ordinary, we never really expect the ordinary, especially in contemporary fiction. As the story progresses, we see Jas and his friends in a painfully slow coming of age process. Through the first and second sections, the story is relatively consistent and the reader begins to become accustomed to the style of both the book and the characters in it.

For some reason, once the third section opens the fireworks start to fly. We suddenly see suicides, unexpected deaths, absurd relationships with post college age people, Jas breaking into his fathers warehouse, getting beat up, and burning it down, Jas becoming an outcast from his group of friends, and of course the "shocking twist," Jas is actually white. It seems as though Malkani either got tired and used this ridiculous type of storyline to speed up the book to finish it or because he was too lazy to continue with the intricate and detailed writing he just tried to throw in tons of action so he could cover up the lower quality of writing. In either case, while I felt that something drastic need to happen in the life of Jas, the ending to Londonstani not only exceeded my expectaitions but went so far past them that I find myself unable to take the book seriously.

Malkani ruined his book in the last section, as he threw away so many of the details and aspects of the book that made the first two sections so good...