Hey, it's Empire's book today. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. 3D Umragar's novel, The Museum of Failures,

takes place mostly in India. It's about an ad-exec named Remy who heads back home to India to adopt a child.

There, of course, he has to confront the family he left behind, including his mother, Shireen. And it's this character that I find

interesting. The book is out now in paperback. And when it first came out, Umergar spoke to

here now as Deepa Fernandez about how she was thinking about developing Shireen as a mother figure

character. And I couldn't help but think about how similar she sounds to the prototypical American

housewife characters, you know, someone like a Betty Draper from Madman. It's just one of those

reminders that people are people all across the world. That interview's up ahead.

Out in paperback next week is the beautiful novel, The Museum of Failures. The book introduces

us to Remy Wadija, a successful Indian American ad executive who's returning to India in order

to adopt a child. Remy left decades earlier to attend college in the United States. His beloved

father has died. He and his mother have always had a difficult

relationship and he built a life in Ohio with his wife, Kathy. But his return will force him to uncover

truths about his family that his parents have kept from him for decades. Thriti Umriga is the author

of The Museum of Failures, and she joined me last

September to talk about it. What a novel this was. It's enthralling from the first page to the end.

I want you, Thriti, to introduce us to Remy. He's someone who seems to have left India without

regrets. He's eager to become American

and he's built a life in Ohio. Tell us more about him. Remy, in some ways, has been groomed

to be an American rather than a citizen of India. His father, for reasons that become clear as the

novel goes on, has played a vital role in this

process. He's exposed him to American music, American novels, and they are people of privilege

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