About the Book: Room in Bombay: A Memoir
This room that has been my crucible, controlled and tormented and driven me—how
much has it shaped my history, my current self?
Author Manil Suri grows up in a large, crumbling flat in Bombay which his Hindu
parents share with three Muslim families. Their single room is a refuge from the
religious and territorial tensions ravaging the apartment. But it is also a
prison that holds them captive—one that makes Manils playback-singer father
drift towards alcoholism and his mother towards increasing isolation, while
restraining Manil from exploring the dawning realization that he might be gay.
As the