?Profoundly moving . . . 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 devastati
In a tiny flat in Bombay Imelda Mendes - Em to her family - is by turns flamboyant, maniacally affectionate and cruelly candid. Her husband - Augustine, the 'Big Hoom' - and two children must endure h
She was always Em to us. There may have been a time when we called her something ordinary like Mummy, or Ma, but I don't remember. She was Em, and our father, sometimes, was the Big Hoom. In a tiny fl
