The title piece is a meditative autobiographical essay in 2 parts, bookending artful short stories in the middle. Irani is a masterful storyteller. I prefer the fictional parts, mostly because of the tragic characters: gangsters in Mumbai, a celebrity chef in NYC, an impoverished circus clown, an illegal immigrant in Vancouver. Mr Molt, about stealing a penguin from a zoo in Mumbai, is my favourite. #Audiobook read by the author. #Canadian