How to Screw Up Like a Pro

Abirami M. Krishnan

'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.