The Museum of Failures: A Novel by Thrity Umrigar holiday As a performance artist

As a performance artist

Neither the school play’s Shakespearean English nor his parents’ Farsi seems up to the task

Evie wonders exactly how she ended up in a life that couldn’t be further from the one she dreamed of

And much more

The Museum of Failures: A Novel by Thrity Umrigar holiday As a performance artistWhen Remy Wadia left India for the United States, he carried his resentment of his cold and inscrutable mother with him and has kept his distance from her. Years later, he returns to Bombay, planning to adopt a baby from a young pregnant girland to see his elderly mother again before it is too late. She is in the hospital, has stopped talking, and seems to have given up on life. Struck with guilt for not realizing just how ill she had become, Remy