![]() They live in a small house (four hundred and twenty square feet to be precise) at Mahim and the story is of this small family in the equation where nothing much is balanced, not unlike the average life of any middle class family with their own ghosts hidden under floorboards and inside cupboards.Įm, or Imelda Mendes, is a woman suffering from manic depression. The story is woven around the Mendes’, a Roman Catholic Family (or, if one was to ask Em, the Roaming Cat Licks) of four. ![]() I didn’t want something to be missed that was an integral part of the reading experience, but since when has that made a very big difference.Įm and the Big Hoom is a novel based in the city of Bombay before cell phones and on-the-go communication had permeated the slow lives of an average city dweller. ![]() It has been haunting me ever since I finished reading it, and I read it twice. Writing a review for a book that has attained the heights of Jerry Pinto’s novel is an exercise that would haunt anyone who attempts to do it. From time to time, she will say, ‘Mambo?’Īnd he will put down the paper and look at her. ![]() The Big Hoom will sit by her bed and she will hold his forearms as he reads the paper. ![]()
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