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Meet up with the Patel-Joneses - Babo, Sian, Mayuri, and Bean - in their little house with orange and black gates next door to the Punjab Women's Association in Madras. Babo grew up here, but he and Sian, his cream-skinned Welsh love, fulfilled in London. Babo's parents disapproved. And then they disapproved unless the few moved back again to Madras. So here they can be. As the 20th century creaks and croaks its way along, Babo, Sian, and the children understand their way through the uncharted territory of a "hybrid" family: the busyness of Babo's relatives; the faraway phone-line crackle of Sian's; the eternal wisdom and smooth bosom of Great-Grandmother Ba; the perils of first love, lost innocence, and later years; and the top question: What now ? with the space your loved ones leave behind? Tishani Doshi, a prizewinning poet, plunges into fiction for the first time with this sensitive and uplifting debut. With rich feeling and dazzling dialect, Doshi evokes both Zadie Smith and Rohinton Mistry as she catches the quirks and calamities of 1 abnormal clan in a tale of identity, family, belonging, and all-transcending love.
