'The Heart is a Shifting Sea' review: Varieties of Indian matrimony

The Heart Is a Shifting Sea is the culmination of Ms Flock's search for those answers: a heavily reported work of nonfiction centred on three couples

The journalist Elizabeth Flock was in her early 20s when she moved to Mumbai. Though she was wary of overromanticising India, she was immediately taken with what appeared to be an Indian attitude toward romance itself. “In Mumbai, people seemed to practice a showy, imaginative kind of love,” she writes in The Heart Is a Shifting Sea. She wondered if there was wisdom to this brand of passion: “When I arrived in Mumbai after my dad’s third divorce, the city seemed to hold some answers.”
 
The Heart Is a Shifting Sea is the culmination of Ms Flock’s search for