An enchanting, magical-realist coming-of-age story about an unconventional childhood. Mina Pereira longs to be normal, and it's no wonder-with barometric antennae wired to her brain she feels like an outcast. Her overwhelmingly precocious sister, Deepa, who's read all of Dostoevsky by the time she is eight years old, and her younger sister, Shanti, painfully normal beyond reproach, don't help matters either....
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