Em and the Big Hoom (Jerry Pinto)

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… Depression means nothing more than the blues, commercially packaged angst, a hole in the ground ; until you find it’s black weight settled inside your mother’s chest, disrupting her breathing, leaching her days, and yours, of colour and the nights of rest …

Readers’ Break

Public and participative discussion on Jerry Pinto’s celebrated fiction on mental illness, Em and the Big Hoom (2012).

Explore the text and pick a few passages to discuss together !

Free and open to all !

Saturday 4 March 2017
6:30 PM
Coffee Home, Delhi

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