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Hardev Dange is suffering through a tumultuous year. He™s just been informed that the bank is going to foreclose on his house. His fickle daughter Birendra is on the verge of marriage, his son Emile is studying curses (while falling in love with a fellow male grad student), and his younger daughter, Dorothy, who™s deaf, is working at a tattoo and body piercing parlour and collecting stories from the older men languishing at her local hangout. And because he™s confined to a wheelchair, Hardev is dependent on his homecare worker, the kleptomaniac Rodriguez, to help him devise a plan to keep house and home together.
In this modern, multicultural re-telling of Shakespeare™s King Lear, Priscila Uppal explores the vulnerability and complexity of family and inheritance. She exposes the tragic and comedic dimensions of our failures to communicate, of keeping secrets” especially from family”and the consequences of our betrayals.
With the depth of her perception and fine eye for detail, Priscila Uppal™s To Whom It May Concern is a refreshing take on love, compassion and torment. In this grand saga with its vivid portrayal of characters held hostage by their fate and fortune, everyone has an opinion, but few keep it to themselves”except when it really counts.
ISBN-9780143068501
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Pages : 352
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