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Title: Poverty does not prevent the existence of compassion
Review: Rohinton Mistry posits that even in a society in which the government is corrupt and the poverty level in inhumane, small decencies still exist - decencies that promote humor, compassion, and a bittersweet degree of compassion and tenderness.Family Matters is set in Bombay in the 90s. The deterioration of the city is paralleled by the physical condition of an elderly professor with Parkinson's disease. Set against the horrors of overcrowding, family secrets, tensions between the various family members, Mistry fully explores the tightrope walk that constitutes just getting through life for most people in the world - yet he does so with humor, tenderness, and a haunting feeling of love.
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