If there was one thing I feared as I was growing up.
The plot has been narrated by her son, who lives with a constant fear that he might someday go mad, just like his mother. Then it vanishes and you are outside the dark tower again.Įm and The Big Hoom is a story about a woman Imelda Mendes aka Em, who is suffering from what doctors consider as nervous disorders such as Mania, Schizophrenia etc. A scrap of cloth flutters and it becomes a sign and a code and a message and all that you want it to be. From time to time, a well-loved face will peer out and love floods back. You can only stand outside it as a woman might stand outside a prison in which her lover is locked up. My Take A book that I’m gonna love and cherish forever. Between Em, the mother, driven frequently to hospital after her failed suicide attempts, and The Big Hoom, the father, trying to hold things together as best he could, they tried to be a family.
In a one-bedroom-hall-kitchen in Mahim, Bombay, through the last decades of the twentieth century, lived four love-battered Mendeses : mother, father, son and daughter. Em and The Big Hoom Author: Jerry Pinto Publisher: Aleph Book Company Genre: Contemporary Fiction
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