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Family Matters by Mistry, Rohinton is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Amazon.com Review Set during the 1990s in an overcrowded and politically corrupt Bombay, Rohinton Mistry's Family Matters depicts a family being torn apart by lies, love, and its unresolved demons of the past. Nariman Vakeel is an aging patriarch whose advancing Parkinson's disease and its related complications threaten to destroy his large Parsi family. When Nariman breaks his ankle and becomes bedridden, his two stepchildren turn his care over to their half-sister, Roxanne, who lives in a two-room flat with her husband and two sons. What follows is each character's reaction to this situation, from Roxanne's husband's struggle to provide for his family without neglecting his conscience to their sons' coming of age in an era of uncertainty. Expertly interspersed between these dilemmas are Nariman's tortured remembrances of a forbidden love and its inescapable consequences ("no matter where you go in the world, there is only one story: of youth, and loss, and yearning for redemption. So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different"). Family Matters is a compelling, emotional, and persuasive testimony to the importance of memories in every family's histor

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Mistry, Rohinton
Publisher
Emblem Editions
Published
2011
Language
EN
ISBN
9781551994369
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Peoples & Cultures Fiction
Rating
3.55 / 5 (26 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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