The long journey to find oneself
Although it unfolds across a range of settings, from a train crossing Kashmir to a bistro in London's posh Notting Hill neighborhood, this worldly novel is full of familiar pains. A boy struggles to become a man; a mother rebuilds her life in the wake of a shaming divorce; and a father looms like a colossus over the action, so important his presence can be registered purely through the lengths to which this book's na…