Taking place across time and from different perspectives, these short stories primarily focus on two siblings, Aiden and Ally Pinto, who are Indian Canadian children whose family comes from Goa. This was such an interesting book to read, especially to see how the stories all linked to each other as the siblings made sense of two cultures while living in a predominantly white neighborhood. I can’t quite place my finger on what made Mascarenhas’s storytelling different from other diaspora stories, but there was something refreshing about his approach to the immigrant narrative that I really appreciated. Like any short story collection, I found some more compelling than others, but overall, I found that this to be an engaging and endearing read.