It also tells a story of love and support.
These give us glimpses into their life, Em’s early employment and her early years of motherhood. We move through the early years of Imelda and Augustine’s relationship with letters and diary entries. The book’s tone and pace changes based on Em’s state of being. This non-linear story chronicles the life of the family from the time Imelda and Augustine began their romance to the family’s present day struggles with Em’s bipolar disorder and how it presented itself in their lives. Em and the Big Hoom, were the nicknames with which the parents were referred to by their children. The book takes us on a journey through a one bedroom apartment in Mahim where Imelda Augustine their daughter, Susan and their son, the unnamed narrator of their story all lived. In an interview, Jerry Pinto shares that Em and the Big Hoom was the book that he began to write when he was around 16 but he wrote this specific version nearly 24 years later. She slept ravenously but it was a drugged sleep, probably dreamless sleep, sleep that gives back nothing.” She had no time for love or hate, fatigue or hunger. It was another reality from which she had no escape. No, even that sounds like she had some choice in the matter. “I don’t know how to describe her depression except to say that it seemed like it was engrossing her. His poems have appeared in journals and anthologies, including Reasons for Belonging: Fourteen Contemporary Indian Poets and Fulcrum: An Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics. He has also co-edited Confronting Love (2005), a book of contemporary Indian love poetry in English.
His collection of poems, Asylum and Other Poemsappeared in 2003. Em and the Big Hoom, winner of the 2013 Crossword Book Award and the Hindu Literary Award, is his first novel. Jerry Pinto is a writer of prose, poetry, and children’s fiction, in addition to being a journalist.
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