The Boston Globe, January 5th, 2003
"Family Matters" is Rohinton Mistry's "Nashville Skyline." Like Dylan's landmark album, Mistry's third novel is a homespun return to his roots. After the epic sweep of his last novel, the much- acclaimed, Oprah-sanctified "A Fine Balance," Mistry focuses on smaller, more domestic concerns here. Shunning the large, political canvas of his earlier works, Mistry trains his compassionate but penetrating gaze on family - which is, after all, in Engels's memorable phrase, the smallest unit of the state. Set in Bombay and in the idiosyncratic world of the Parsis, the novel deals with two issues that ...
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