More of a social study than a family or love story. It's written in breathtakingly poetic language, with creative new word creations and a vivid description of small town India. Tough and sad but in its hard view on the world and in its way of showing us that it's not always us who have the control over our lives amazingly beautiful in a way that you get the feeling that the writing style and story doesn't match at all. That made it a very interesting read for me.