Read-alikes: Returning Home and Facing Change, by By Donna Seaman booklistonline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from booklistonline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
October 2023
In Thrity Umrigar’s THE MUSEUM OF FAILURES, Remy Wadia is headed back to India for the first time since his father died. He and his mother have a very fractured relationship. She is tough and cold towards him, and he has no idea what he did to warrant this treatment. He has returned with a mission in mind: to adopt a baby. He is married and living in Ohio with his American wife, Kathy. Life there is full and brilliant, and he has a loving relationship with her family. But they both long for a child, and the opportunity to adopt an Indian baby has been shared with Remy's good friends in India. They know a woman who is pregnant and in the wrong relationship to keep her child.
Thrity Umrigar is the bestselling author of 10 novels, including HONOR, which was a Reese's Book Club Pick, as well as three picture books and a memoir. Her books have been published in over 15 countries and in several languages. A former journalist, she has contributed to the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the New York Times, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and other newspapers. She is a recipient of the Nieman Fellowship to Harvard, and winner of the Cleveland Arts Prize, the Seth Rosenberg prize and a Lambda Literary award.