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French Ambassador Jerome Bonnafont, present at the opening, quipped, “It’s quite disturbing that Alliance Francaise is supposed to release a book that challenges the very basis of Indian society. Maybe, Abha got corrupted in New York.” Bonnafont, who has read Babyji and That Summer In Paris, Dawesar’s first book, added, “I believe she is a bit French in the way she writes, especially the way she talks about psychology without being too heavy. If I were to compare her, then it would be to French writer Andre Gide who said, ‘Families, I hate you’”.
Family Values, where the characters are identified as Six Fingers, Flunkie Junkie and Cowdung, unfolds through the eyes of a boy in simple unvarnished tones.
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