![]() It took me by surprise how Pinto managed to write so originally & brilliantly about mental health, worldly matters, family relations, shame, mindset and the condition of a person fight depression, faith, religion and atheism in mere 250 pages. The narrator and his sister are robbed from having a normal childhood but, can they even complain or cry about when their mother is suffering gravely with absolutely no control over her own life? The mother of the narrator, Em, is fighting and suffering from mental illness while the narrator’s father, The Big Hoom, is trying his best to hold his family tightly together as much as he could. This book is a story of a small family of 4 living in a tiny flat in Bombay. I have never been in any depressive state but the way everything in this book flows gave me a tinted idea about how horrible, delicate and scary mental diseases are and can be. I have never read any book which speaks so boldly about this very topic. ![]() It seemed too big and demanding and there wasn’t fixed syllabus.” “I wasn’t sure I would ever be able to deal with the world. Em and the Big Hoom is all about family ties, relations and mental health. This book shook me from the inside, made me cry but yet made me feel like home. I wasn’t able to write how it made me feel, to be honest. ![]() I finished reading Em and The Big Hoom by Jerry Pinto couple of weeks back but never got around writing how I felt about it. ![]()
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