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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 Aruna, who brings off a 'good' marriage, and brother Arun, the disappointing son and heir who is studying in America. Across the world in Massachusetts, life with the Patton family is bewildering for Arun in the alien culture of freedom, freezers and paradoxically self-denying self-indulgence.

Perhaps there will be a return to normalcy now. Then she shatters such hopes by
throwing Arun her newly roguish smile. She wears lipstick now, very pink. She is
not very skilled at using it: it smears her front teeth. 'There you are!' she cries, too
loudly. 'Come along! We're going to spend the day down at the swimming hole.
It's too hot to lie in the yard and Daddy won't get us a pool, so Melanie and I've
decided —' she looks archly through the door towards the den ' swimming
instead, ...