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by Madhur Anand Strange Light, 320 pages “Some viruses have envelopes. Some letters are best left unopened. Now my mother is on the phone telling me to get my flu shot.” The virus that alters the course of life in Madhur Anand’s This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart is polio; her father contracts the illness as an infant and is left with a lifelong limp. His uneven gait is one of the many asymmetries that tug at the reader’s attention in this “memoir in halves.” The book itself is asymmetrical, one “half” being slightly longer than the other. The first half, titled “The First Partition,” is itself halved as Anand alternates, section by section, between her father’s and mother’s voices as we move from Partition-era India to Canada, to Toronto via Montreal and Thunder Bay. These two half-stories wrap, helix-like, around one another, providing the material for “The Second Partition,” the half of the memoir that is Anand’s own story to t ....