# Em and the Big Hoom

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- Book: [Em and the Big Hoom](https://www.bookquiver.com/jerry-pinto/em-and-the-big-hoom) ([Em and the Big Hoom.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jerry-pinto/em-and-the-big-hoom.md))
- Authors: [Jerry Pinto](https://www.bookquiver.com/jerry-pinto)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4196-652-5
- Published: 2014-05-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

In a tiny flat in Bombay Imelda Mendes - Em to her children - holds her family in thrall with her flamboyance, her manic affection and her cruel candour. Her husband - to whom she was once 'Buttercup' - and her two children must bear her 'microweathers', her swings from laugh-out-loud joy to dark malevolence. Brilliantly comic and almost unbearably moving, Jerry Pinto's portrait of a woman finding it difficult to stay sane - and what happens to those who cannot help but love her - is one of the most powerful and original fiction debuts of recent years.