The God of Small Things

"They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much."The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, fraternal twins Esthappen and Rahel fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family. Their lonely, lovely mother, Ammu, (who loves by night the man her children love...