mslaura 's review for:

Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry

4.0

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I found this book to be both heartwarming and heartbreaking, with a nice sprinkling of satiric humor thrown in. It is the story of a family; of basically good people who find themselves in a difficult situation and each deal with it in the way their nature commands. Choices are made -- some good, some bad -- but all authentic to the characters and the story. Watching events unfold and attempting to achieve some understanding is the nine-year-old Jehangir, an endearing little boy who loves to lose himself in books but sadly grows to understand that life is not like the stories he reads.