But this also brings in a sand dune’s worth of thick, black, grainy dirt from outside, along with a spectacular array of filth. The only way we can get air into the living room is to open the study window, to let the sea air in. Even rented parking spaces are contentious. Phone service is near impossible, and getting cooking gas into the apartment a challenge. They undergo an unfathomable series of misfortunes dealing with the rank politics of a new apartment. His family starts to build a temporary life in South Bombay, which turns into an emotionally challenging experience. Mehta returns to Bombay 21 years removed from where his extended family of ‘mercantile wanderers’ grew up. He takes what might be called a ‘literary census’ of Bombay through interviews and immersion in Bombay life these intimate details about his subjects’ motivations and routines are the backbone of the book, one informed by a journalist’s eye and a homecoming heart Maximum City is New York-based writer Suketu Mehta’s vast and occasionally riveting recounting of his return to the home of his youth, Bombay.
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