Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai, author of The Inheritance of Loss, is a satire about life in a small Indian village. Sampath, a twenty year old boy unremarkable in every way, decides he is tired of his life, his family, his job, etc. He climbs a guava tree in a nearby orchard and promptly takes up residence there.
Suddenly he is seen by the town as a holy man and all manner of chaos ensues as people come from far and wide to hear his advice, and a tribe of drunken monkeys begins terrorizing the devotees. Desai captures the hilarity of the situation in pitch perfect tone, and I was laughing out loud at the absurdity of it all. A fun read.
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