FASTING, FEASTING
Uma, the plain spinster daughter of a close-knit Indian family, is trapped at home, smothered by her overbearing parents and their traditions. . . unlike her ambitious younger sister, who has made a good marriage and managed to escape. Meanwhile their brother Arun, the disappointing son and heir, is studying in America, living in a Massachusetts suburb with the Patton family. . . where he finds himself bewildered by the culture that surrounds him . . .