Rohinton Mistry's new 469 page novel, Family Matters deals with a plot concerning an extended family breaking down when the patriarch, Nariman Vakeel, a retired English professor, breaks his ankle and requires home nursing care. Mistry's first novel, Such a Long Journey deals with the issues of family affairs like, hopes for the future, family feuds and generation gaps. The protagonists Gustad Noble from Such a Long Journey and Nariman Vakeel from, Family Matters suffer from …showed first 75 words of 1475 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1475 total…to escape their problems, Nariman drifts off with music and his true love Lucy, while Gustad imagines himself as a Indiana Jones, who is on a mission to slay evil creatures. The daydreaming in these novels can be compared to the protagonist from The Araby, since they share a very similar theme, the theme of running away to a distant land. The novels also have a very similar plot, they both deal with family breakdowns.