227 pages
English language
Published April 20, 1999 by Chatto & Windus.
Fasting, feasting
by Anita Desai
Uma, the older daughter of an Indian family, lives in relative poverty with her parents, while her younger brother Arun lives in America; both tending to their demanding parents.
Subjects
- East Indian students -- Massachusetts -- Fiction
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- Young women -- Fiction
- Massachusetts -- Fiction
- India -- Fiction