Overall this was a pretty decent read. You read about the coup and the broadcasts that are going out from "the General", but other than a few moments, there's not much of an impact on the siblings from the coup. Bhumi gets out pretty early on in the book, and her character took a deep nosedive for me. The chapters focusing on her just started to drag on and I felt like I was slogging through them.

With the coup going on and the Indians being burned in their shops or shot in their cabs in the beginning of the book, I was expecting a little more grim reality to be going on. The family is impacted by the coup, of coarse, but none of it really hits them in a majorly negative way. Both siblings lose friends that they cared for deeply, Bhumi has to move to the USA to escape the uncertainty, and Jaipal has a few run-ins with the military while running his shop. It felt more like reading a slice-of-life novel with a coup happening in the background. Not really one that I would recommend, but it wasn't horrible. I did get to learn a bit about Indian culture due to Batsha not breaking everything down into English. That's why I ultimately am giving this a 3.5 rating.