Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai

Sampath announces he is staying in the tree. Only Kulfi tells the others to let him be.

After discovering where their son is, the family tries to intervene and get Sampath to climb out of the tree and come home. He climbs a beautiful guava tree and decides that he belongs there. He bolts off the bus to an attractive orchard he sees in the distance. Sampath has other ideas and decides to run away. With no job and no prospects of one, his father is frantic and orders his son to immediately go job hunting. After he eats it, he immediately feels energized and transformed. Kulfi feels sorry for Sampath, with whom she feels a great connection, and gives him a fresh guava. Not surprisingly, Sampath is fired after disrobing and mooning those gathered for his boss' daughter's wedding. At the Post Office, Sampath spends hours alone, steaming open letters written to and from neighbors and by so doing, he learns a great deal about their personal lives and their secrets. Sampath pays no attention to his father's advice. His father tries to counsel him on how he can get a better job or at least a raise in salary at the Post Office where he works. Twenty years later, Sampath has not yet lived up to the prediction of greatness. To Kulfi, his mother, he is an odd looking alien with a large brown birthmark on his face. Sampath's eccentric mother and demanding father are not so sure about their baby becoming a great man. Not only does he bring on the much needed rain, he causes the Red Cross, flying over Shahkot, to drop food for the hungry people. The people in the community of Shahkot are convinced that Sampath is destined to be an important man. Immediately following his birth, the Swedish Red Cross makes a food drop right in front of Sampath's house.

He is born on the night a severe drought ends when a ferocious monsoon sweeps over the region.

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Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai