This Man Booker Prize finalist is a "splendid novel" about siblings and their very different lives in India and America (The Wall Street Journal).

Uma, the plain spinster daughter of a close-knit Indian family, is trapped at home, smothered by her overbearing parents and their traditions -- unlike her ambitious younger sister, who has made a "good" marriage and managed to escape. Meanwhile their brother Arun, the disappointing son and heir, is studying in America, living in a Massachusetts suburb with the Patton family -- where he finds himself bewildered by the culture that surrounds him...
"Such witty writing... You take its suffering characters to heart." -- The Boston Globe

"Stunning... Looks gently but without sentimentality at an Indian family that, despite Western influence, is bound by Eastern traditions." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Desai's characters are wonderfully, fallibly human as they wend their way through the maze of everyday domestic tensions." -- San Francisco Chronicle

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