A multicultural American family comes together just as the world around them begins to fall apart When Vic Singh finds a dead blue butterflyout of place in his cold, upstate New York villagehe knows something is terribly amiss. Yet he is too busy dodging the bully at his high school, let alone trying to live up to his fathers expectations, to look much further into the environmental oddities around him. Meanwhile, for Vics father, Paul, the ghosts of the past cause him to pressure his son to live up to his Sikh traditionswhile his Latvian wife, Maija, is haunted by the present Shes having new and ominous psychic visions even though she cant read her own teenage children. Isabella, attempting to lose herself through her role in a school play, has an illness she cant seem to shakeand Vic, trying to find himself, is spending more time alone in nature. Then Pauls father and Maijas mother move in to the family home, upending the delicate balance of this Indian/Latvian family and its two American teenagers. Yet, as the environmental devastation that Vics butterflies have forewarned comes to bear, the family comes together in new and unexpected ways. Olivia Chadhas lovely, multilayered novel brings us into an extended family of three generations that strives to remain together in an unstable world.

Binding: Paperback;328 pages; Publisher: Byte Level Research; Classification: N/A; Weight: 496.48 g; Dimensions: N/A

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