Family matters
By: Rohinton Mistry
Edition: 1st U.S. ed
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
Subjects: Parkinson's disease -- Patients -- Fiction; Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction; Parent and adult child -- Fiction; Apartment houses -- Fiction; Stepfamilies -- Fiction; Older men -- Fiction; Bombay (India) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: "The setting is Bombay, mid-1990s. Nariman Vakeel, suffering from Parkinson's disease, is the elderly patriarch of a small, discordant family. In a building called Chateau Felicity, he and his two middle-aged stepchildren - Coomy, bitter and domineering, and her just-younger brother, Jal, mild mannered and acquiescent - occupy a once-elegant apartment whose ruin is progressing as rapidly as Nariman's disease.

Coomy has "rules to govern every aspect of [Nariman's] shrunken life," but even she cannot keep him from his evening walks. When he stumbles and breaks an ankle (fulfilling one of Coomy's nagging prophecies), she has hardly said "I told you so" before she is plotting to turn his round-the-clock care over to her younger, sweet-tempered half sister. Roxana, her husband, and their two sons live in an already overcrowded apartment, but Coomy knows that Roxana will not refuse her.

What Coomy cannot know is that she has set in motion a great unraveling (and an unexpected repair) of the family - and a revelation of its deeply love-torn past."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "A Borzoi book"--Verso, t.p