TY - BOOK AU - Desai, Kiran TI - The inheritance of loss SN - 9780143423904 U1 - 813.54 PY - 2006/// CY - USA PB - Penguin Books, KW - Grandparent and child KW - Tutors and tutoring KW - Orphans KW - Teenage girls KW - Ethnic relations KW - Judges--Retirement KW - English - Fiction N2 - An embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace lives in a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judge's cook watches over Sai distractedly, for his thoughts are often on his son, Biju, who is hopscotching from one gritty New York restaurant job to another ER -