How to Screw up like a Pro

Most families have their share of rebels, adulterers, addicts, ambitious actors, reformed playboys, lovers of exotic animals, and the occasional mute, right?' akola suresh, recently returned from the us, finds that in the three years that she's been away, 'home' has become more unravelled than ever. Surrounded by ever-bickering parents whom she addresses by their first names, aged grandparents struck with all manner of old-age eccentricities, a brother who is narrowly skirting the path to social pariah-hood, and a younger sister aspiring to be the hottest new star in kollywood, akola is quite sure of one thing - 'bonded' is a word they could never entirely apply to themselves.but when old, hurtful secrets are revealed and a frightening incident shakes them all to the core, it's time for the sureshes to abandon their happily dysfunctional lives and, finally, be family.

Of staid south Indian origins, Abirami M. Krishnan, a biotechnologist, spent two years in the US and returned to Chennai to follow her interests in the arts, media and writing. She recently completed a post-graduate programme in management. Having worked as a radio jockey, newspaper reporter, features writer, television news anchor, emcee, model and actor in Chennai to support herself while writing, Abirami feels any job is worth doing. Abirami lives in Bangalore. This is her first book.