A Small Fortune Paperback - 2013
by Dastgir, Rosie
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Description
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Details
- Title A Small Fortune
- Author Dastgir, Rosie
- Binding Paperback
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Riverhead Books
- Date 2013-05-07
- Bookseller's Inventory # BOS-F-02a-05616
- ISBN 9781594631511 / 1594631514
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.1 x 1.1 in (20.32 x 12.95 x 2.79 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011050598
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
Harris, the patriarch of his large extended family in both England and Pakistan, has unexpectedly received a “small fortune” from his divorce settlement with an English woman. As a devout Muslim, Harris views this sum as a “burden of riches” that he must unload on someone else as quickly as possible. But deciding which relative to give it to proves to be a burden of its own, and soon he has promised it both to his extremely poor cousins in Pakistan and to his Westernized, college student daughter. In a rash bout of guilt and misunderstanding, Harris signs the entire sum away to the least deserving, most prosperous cousin of all, exacerbating a tricky web of familial debt and obligation on two sides of the world.
With insight, affection, and a great gift for character and story, Rosie Dastgir immerses us in a rich, beautifully drawn immigrant community and a complex extended family. She considers the challenges between relatives of different cultural backgrounds, generations, and experiences—and the things they have to teach one another. A Small Fortune offers an affecting look at class, culture, and the heartbreak of misinterpretation.
