{"id":1036,"date":"2018-03-29T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T21:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2018-03-11T11:19:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T17:19:39","slug":"book-louisiana-catch-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/29\/book-louisiana-catch-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: Louisiana Catch (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1517614119l\/37864860.jpg\" alt=\"Louisiana Catch\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/>Louisiana Catch<br \/>\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2018<br \/>\nAuthor: Sweta Srivastava Vikram<br \/>\nLength: 254 pages<\/p>\n<p>***THIS BOOK WAS RECEIVED FROM THE AUTHOR***<\/p>\n<p>At a time when the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements are at their peak, a book like\u00a0<em>Louisiana Catch<\/em>\u00a0is poised to address something that many American\u2019s might choose to ignore: abuse of women in foreign countries. Sure, there\u2019s sexual harassment in the United States, but in other cultures where there is a firm patriarchy in control, there are much more severe issues like throwing acid and marital rape. While\u00a0<em>Louisiana Catch<\/em>\u00a0does cover these abuses in the context of India, there are other elements to the story that distracts from the impact of overcoming past abuse.<\/p>\n<p>First of all,\u00a0<em>Louisiana Catch<\/em>\u00a0is a somewhat misleading title, since most of the action happens in either New York City or New Delhi. Sure, there\u2019s some amount of Louisiana in the characters, and the women\u2019s conference is held in New Orleans (not sure why, since New York would have been a better fit), but the focus of the story is hardly on Louisiana. Don\u2019t let the stock-photo cover fool you either, as this book is more about an Indian woman coming to terms with her past and breaking away from the shame and fear of an abusive former marriage.<\/p>\n<p>As for the characters themselves, we don\u2019t need a cast list at the start of the book, since they are all pretty well developed, even if it borders on clich\u00e9 in many instances. The buxom main character (who surprisingly doesn\u2019t have any back pain from her ample chest) follows the traditional romance genre tropes, especially when it comes to the love interest of Rohan (who was probably the best character in the book). The middle section felt a little disjointed as the laundry list of why the online friend was terrible, and the love interest was great kept being pounded home, almost in a <em>Lifetime<\/em> movie fashion. At least the somewhat predictable end of the novel was a satisfying conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>A book with a powerful statement that gets a little lost in clich\u00e9s and tropes, I give\u00a0<em>Louisiana Catch<\/em>\u00a03.5 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a01\/2<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisiana Catch Year: 2018 Author: Sweta Srivastava Vikram Length: 254 pages ***THIS BOOK WAS RECEIVED FROM THE AUTHOR*** At a time when the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements are at their peak, a book like\u00a0Louisiana Catch\u00a0is poised to address something that many American\u2019s might choose to ignore: abuse of women in foreign countries. Sure, there\u2019s sexual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,54],"tags":[1142,1215,1020,55,427,1219,1213,1220,1218,1217,8,1141,1216,1214],"class_list":["post-1036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-5-stars","category-book","tag-metoo","tag-timesup","tag-1020","tag-book","tag-india","tag-lifetime-movie","tag-louisiana-catch","tag-marital-rape","tag-new-delhi","tag-new-york-city","tag-review","tag-sexual-assault","tag-sexual-harrassment","tag-sweta-srivastava-vikram"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions\/1047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}