Cassie McCullough

He doesn't think the Chinese students are the same as the Indian ones.

Yeah, he, he's really the lowest of the low.

He's, he's, well maybe not even, he's probably, he describes himself as low, low middle class.

Yeah, it's all quite full on in that way.

And I have to admit, I struggled with a bit of that.

So Ramesh's mother died when... When he was born.

Yeah, giving birth to him.

The father is a tea seller and he kind of exploits Ramesh from a very early age.

His promise is that none of the ingredients of his tea has been, you know, it's all freshly ground on the spot, which means Ramesh has to grind it.

So this terrible upbringing.

And the father's portrayed, I mean, he's pretty horrible.

Here he is in one bit.

Every day Papa stood behind his discoloured copper pot, the Bunsen flame warming his balls, boiling the milk, watered down just enough so that no one can tell.

I still can't stand the smell of scalded fat nor the sight of milk froth erupting.

You know, it's just sort of, oh, he's an awful character.

He's awfully portrayed.

You know, you've got to have a bit of a stomach for it.

And the edition that I'm looking at has a quote on the cover from Kevin Kwan, the author of Crazy Rich Asians.

So I think it has a particular audience that will gobble it up and love it.

And it reminded me of a book, Kate, that we didn't read that...