Fasting, Feasting: A Novel (Basic Ser.: Vol. 50)

By: Anita Desai

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Synopsis: 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