The legacy of loss Kiran Desai announced that one of our most insightful novelists. Illuminates the pain of exile and the ambiguities of the posts with a colorful mosaic of characters: an embittered former judge; Sai, its sixteen years, orphaned granddaughter, a talkative cook and the cook's son, Biju, who is hopscotching miserable in a restaurant in New York to another, trying to stay one step ahead of the INS. When an insurgency in the mountains of Nepal from the threat Sai born-again romance with his beautiful tutor, their lives descend into chaos.