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03013aam a2200541 i 4500 001 87B4DC3AB26511E8BB1AE23C97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180907010357 008 180118t20182017meu d 000 1 eng 010 $a 2018002114 020 $a 1432851071 020 $a 9781432851071 (hardcover) 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-ii--- 050 10 $a PR9499.4.B376 $b W56 2018 082 04 $a 823/.92 $2 23 100 1 $a Basu, Diksha, $e author. 245 14 $a The windfall $h [large print] / $c by Diksha Basu. 250 $a Large print edition. 264 1 $a Waterville, Maine : $b Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, $c 2018. 300 $a 459 pages (large print) ; $c 23 cm. 490 0 $a Thorndike Press large print peer picks 520 $a "A heartfelt comedy of manners, Diksha Basu's debut novel unfolds the story of a family discovering what it means to make it in modern India. For the past thirty years, Mr. and Mrs. Jha's lives have been defined by cramped spaces, cut corners, gossipy neighbors, and the small dramas of stolen yoga pants and stale marriages. They thought they'd settled comfortably into their golden years, pleased with their son's acceptance into an American business school. But then Mr. Jha comes into an enormous and unexpected sum of money, and moves his wife from their housing complex in East Delhi to the super-rich side of town, where he becomes eager to fit in as a man of status: skinny ties, hired guards, shoe-polishing machines, and all. The move sets off a chain of events that rock their neighbors, their marriage, and their son, who is struggling to keep a lid on his romantic dilemmas and slipping grades, and brings unintended consequences, ultimately forcing the Jha family to reckon with what really matters. Hilarious and wise, The Windfall illuminates with warmth and charm the precariousness of social status, the fragility of pride, and, above all, the human drive to build and share a home. Even the rich, it turns out, need to belong somewhere."-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Families $z India $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Wealth $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Social status $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Large type books. 651 0 $a India $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Large type books. 651 1 $a India $v Fiction. 651 1 $a Large type books. 650 4 $a Wealth $v Fiction. 650 4 $a Families $z India $v Fiction. 650 4 $a Large type books. 651 4 $a India $v Fiction. 651 4 $a Large type books. 650 7 $a FICTION / Contemporary Women. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a FICTION / Family Life. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a FICTION / Literary. $2 bisacsh 655 7 $a Humorous fiction. $2 gsafd 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Humorous fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 2 945 $a lpt 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006115113.0 952 $l MXPG943 $d 20180907030922.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=87B4DC3AB26511E8BB1AE23C97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search