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Montreal Serai reviews The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das by Merrily Weisbord.
What inspired Weisbord to undertake this circuitous literary journey? First it was Das’ work, which she found stunning, then her intriguing personality and finally the friendship born out of what prima facie appeared to be a contrived experiment in mutual revelation for literary purposes. Take a look: to begin with, Merrily receives a faxed-in love letter written by her companion back in Canada and reads it aloud to her friend. Then Das urges one of her lovers to profess his love to her in Merrily’s presence. Mutual revelations about their sexual experiences, motherhood and the writing process are encouraged and recorded. The writers follow each other around in their quotidian lives. Doesn’t the Heisenberg effect warn us that observation alone changes the behavior of the observed? But then this staged setup starts gathering momentum and art and life merge blurring the boundaries between both. Not that it matters because in the end the reader is caught up in this compelling narrative and cannot put the book down.
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