Nairman is a widower who lives with his step-son and step-daughter, his dead wife's children from her previous marriage. To save his own daughter from this house of unhappiness, he has spent everything to give her and her husband a home. Now beset by Parkinson's disease, he must move in with them.
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Nairman is a widower who lives with his step-son and step-daughter, his dead wife's children from her previous marriage. To save his own daughter from this house of unhappiness, he has spent everything to give her and her husband a home. Now beset by Parkinson's disease, he must move in with them.
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Rohinton Mistry draws you into the world of a family with a stepfather and half-siblings. The patriarch is an older man, sick with Parkinson's; he winds up breaking his ankle. The story deals with who should take on the responsibility of the father. It's a story that hits home with me, as a baby boomer. I found it to be a book that's hard to put down.
