Written in English
Sahitya Akademi 2016 · Winner
Em and the Big Hoom
Em and the Big Hoom
Jerry Pinto · 46 when first published
Novel · 240 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:In Bombay, a young man tries to make sense of his mother Imelda, a beedi-smoking, singing force whose bipolar disorder can turn her monstrous, and of her long love affair with his father, Augustine.