About the Book: Em and the Big Hoom
Winner of The Hindu Literary Prize 2012
In a one-bedroom-hall-kitchen in Mahim, Bombay, Imelda Mendes-Em to her
children-holds her family in thrall with her flamboyance, her compelling
imagination, her unspoken love, her sometimes cruel candour. Through this, her
husband, to whom she was once buttercup, her son and daughter learn to cope with
her mania and her frequent wish to die.
A searing, and at times darkly funny, study of mental illness, Jerry Pintos
first novel is also a deeply moving story about love and family relationships.
About the Author: Jerry Pinto
Jerry Pinto has been a mathematics