Great stories. “The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don’t. In the way that, although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won't. In the Great Stories, you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, and who doesn’t. And yet you want to know again.” (Pg no. 229) This quote from The God of Small Things sums up this book, and made me re-read the story. This review contains spoilers, but they don’t affect the reading experience. Even in the novel, the first few chapters describe all the major events that will happen later. This book does not concern itself with spoilers and plot twists; it wants to tell a story and demands our attention from t...