000			01313cam a2200145 a 4500
020			_a9780143068501
082			_a813.54 _bUPP/T
100	1		_aUppal, Priscila
245	1	0	_aTo whom it may concern
260			_aNew Delhi _bPenguin _c2008
300			_a398p. _bill.
520			_aHardev Dange is suffering through a tumultuous year. He’s just been informed that the bank is going to foreclose on his house. His fickle daughter Birendra is on the verge of marriage, his son Emile is studying curses (while falling in love with a fellow male grad student), and his younger daughter, Dorothy, who’s deaf, is working at a tattoo and body piercing parlour and collecting stories from the older men languishing at her local hangout. And because he’s confined to a wheelchair, Hardev is dependent on his homecare worker, the kleptomaniac Rodriguez, to help him devise a plan to keep house and home together. In this modern, multicultural re-telling of King Lear, Uppal explores the vulnerability and complexity of family and inheritance. She exposes the tragic and comedic dimensions of our failures to communicate and the consequences of our betrayals, which result in disappointment and disillusionment, but also, unexpectedly, in moments of compassion and love.
650			_aAmerican fiction
942			_cBK
999			_c39161 _d39161