![]() ![]() ![]() But as enchanting and high-spirited as she can be, when Em's bipolar disorder seizes her she becomes monstrous, sometimes with calamitous consequences for herself and others. ![]() ![]() She is the sun around which everyone else orbits. A dark-themed but amazing book that talks openly about mental illness and how it is treated in an Indian family. Most of the time, Em smokes endless beedis and sings her way through life. Meet Imelda and Augustine, or-as our young narrator calls his unusual parents-Em and the Big Hoom. Suffused with compassion, humor, and hard-won wisdom, Em and the Big Hoom is a modern masterpiece, and its American publication is certain to be one of the major literary events of the season. The fiction novel, Em and the Big Hoom, written by Jerry Pinto, (loosely based on the author’s life) revolves around the Mendes, a lower-middle-class, Roman Catholic, Goan family, living in Bombay in the late twentieth century. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Em and The Big Hoom written by Jerry Pinto which was published in. Meet Imelda and Augustine, oras our young narrator calls his unusual parentsEm and the Big Hoom. Brief Summary of Book: Em and The Big Hoom by Jerry Pinto. I cannot remember when I last read something as touching as this."-Amitav Ghosh, author of The Glass Palace First published by a small press in India, Jerry Pinto's devastatingly original debut novel has already taken the literary world by storm. Suffused with compassion, humor, and hard-won wisdom, Em and the Big Hoom is a modern masterpiece, and its American publication is certain to be one of the major literary events of the season. ![]()
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