Disorder

the long version

"'Disorder' is a remarkable first book of poems that tells the story, at turns poignant and outrageous, of a family's dislocation over four continents during the course of 100 years. In short lyrics and longer narrative poems, Pravin takes the reader on a trek, from Bombay to Idi Amin's Uganda, from Birmingham, UK to Birmingham, Alabama, and traces the path of familial love, of obsession, and the passage of time and death through the perceptions of various family members and a host of supporting characters, including ubiquitous paparazzi, mysterious hermaphrodites, and a dubious polygamist"--Publisher info.