In this widely praised, “delicate and hilarious” modern novel about a boy growing up in India with an American Dream, A Confederacy of Dunces and David Copperfield meet Catcher in the Rye and Portnoy's Complaint This novel of childhood, coming of age, of modern Indian manhood, of how the Kama Sutra has been turned upside down in the Land of the Kama Sutra, was described as “very funny” by Kurt Vonnegut, “humorous and manic” by The Independent of London, and “personifies the post-Indpendence Indian male” by Masala Magazine. It has been published by major publishers in ten different countries, and republished as a "classic" by HarperCollins India.