Pity the poor Chawla family of Shahkot, India–their son, Sampath causes all kinds of trouble for his family, culminating in a?ÿHullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, but in a village like Shakhot, hullabaloo is a way of life. Indian writer Kiran Desai begins her first novel with Sampaths birth at the tail-end of a terrible drought. […]