Fasting, Feasting

This Man Booker Prize finalist is a “splendid novel” about siblings and their very different lives in India and America ( The Wall Street Journal ).   Uma, the plain spinster daughter of a close-knit Indian family, is trapped at home, smothered by her overbearing parents and their traditions—unlike her ambitious younger sister, who has made a “good” marriage and managed to escape. Meanwhile their brother Arun, the disappointing son and heir, is studying in America, living in a Massachusetts