Ooh! I have heard this woman's name before but didn't really know anything about her books. Wait, I think she teaches creative writing at the University of Houston and my friend Ravi likes her.

I had a bit of a problem with the very modern-sounding way in which she expressed feminist sentiments - not a problem with the feelings themselves, but that they were phrased in a way that felt too contemporary to me.
That sounds like something that would bug me too.

The book sounds interesting. Maybe I'll look into it after I get around to reading the Mahabharata.