A Room in Bombay: A Memoir

A best-selling novelist turns to memoir in this compelling story of a son's love, a mother's obsession, and the malevolent grip of the past.

Indian-American author Manil Suri grew up in a large, crumbling apartment in Bombay (now Mumbai), which his parents, who were Hindu, shared with three Muslim families. Their single room, at times a refuge from the religious and territorial tensions pervading the apartment, was also a prison that held them captive-his parents stuck in an unhappy marriage...