8-20-12 The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi - Fiction

3 - A much more "intellectual" book than I normally read, this is a look at an Indian teen living in 1960's England and trying to find his way in the world.  His father has an affair and leaves his wife for another woman.  His mother, an Englishwoman, fades into the background but slowly becomes independent.  His stepbrother becomes a rock star, travelling and then living in America in all the rock star, drug addled glory of the time.  He struggles with finding his place in the world and with trying to balance the traditional Indian values of family and obligation with the excesses and uprising occurring during the 60's.  It was ok.  There is a lot of sex of all kinds in the book and some odd characters.  Overall, it kept me interested enough to finish but I definitely won't be reading another of Kureishi's books.