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Apr 17, 2013
This story is about a Man named Gustad who is living with his family in Bombay India, 1971. He has a wife named Dilnavaz, 2 sons Sohrab who is 19 and Darius who is 15, and there’s sweet little Roshan who is 9 years old. Sadly things in his life/family aren’t going as planned. First, his best friend of many years disappears from Khodadad Building; the building where they all lived. Then he has a fight with his oldest son because he decides to go in a different career education wise, and his daughter Roshan who’s just 9 years old gets sick. He later on gets contacted by his best friend who asks him to do something that could get them both in trouble. This book has some swearing and inappropriate language. There’s also some sexual content in it. It’s not too graphic but some people might not be comfortable reading it. There is tragedy but also some comedy to lighten up the atmosphere. I had to read this book for school and it was dreadful. I thought it was very slow and at times confusing. The author flipped back to the past sometimes and then back to the future and sometimes I didn’t differentiate between the two. That’s why it was confusing for me. People who like to or don’t mind reading about religion will like this book. I personally don’t like the author’s style of writing. It took me a long time to finish this book because I just wasn’t into it, but power to the people who want to read it.