All Mrinalini Singh wants, she has. A loving husband, a competent cook, the
vague hope of a book deal one day. But when her old roommate Jahanara accuses
her of being selfish, Mrinalini is forced to practise altruism on the nearest
available target: her maid s toddler. All this caring doesn t come easy, though;
and it hardly helps that her husband Siddhartha has quit his lucrative job and
acquired parental ambitions. Or that Brajeshwar Jha, her upstairs tenant and
literary rival, has not only published his book before Mrinalini, but also
lampooned her and Siddhartha in it.
Close to Home is a wry look at