A very pleasing narrative, this has as its lead a young boy of poor parents in a village in Goa, India. There's been a beef with the neighbours, and the man there has inherited money from the old woman the whole village calls a witch, and had the audacity to turn it into a fortune. So even if the one household has a friendly, intelligent young man, full of dreams of this job, that career and every kind of little success to help his parents out, he wouldn't be seen dead talking to, or helping, the richer family with their three young daughters. Until something forces his hand, to the extent the families might just unite in friendship. The story that results could have been twee, or poverty porn, or anything else similarly disagreeable. Instead it's really rather rich, and very strong on mood and a sense of place, making it exotic yet completely relatable. For every young reader with pipe dreams of some kind of entrepreneurial success for him or herself, this comes as a pleasant treat of a read.