Crippled from a childhood illness
an athlete-scholar who fits right in at his elite prep school—all the while hiding some secrets of his own
Merging broad visual suspense with wry wit
and even our fellow citizens—and the pain that ensues when we cannot
Now he must infiltrate London’s most exclusive underground gambling club
Fasting, Feasting Cookbook_Gift_Guide Crippled from a childhood illnessHailed as unsparing, yet tender and funny, Fasting, Feasting is a splendid novel about siblings and their very different lives in India and America. (The Wall Street Journal) Fasting, Feasting tells the moving story of Uma, the plain older daughter of an Indian family, tied to the household of her childhood and tending to her parents' every extravagant demand, and of her younger brother, Arun, across the world in Massachusetts, bewildered by his new