BABA
How We Carry Our Fathers and How we Become Them
Genre: Memoir
Inspiring, funny, gripping
An exuberant tale of love, cricket, and migration
From waking up at 2 a.m. to watch Test matches with his dad, to becoming the secret king of Cricket Twitter, Viraj Deshpande has always done life differently. This is the exuberant and moving story of how a cricket-obsessed boy from a small town in India defied expectations, dodged a 9-to-5, built a start-up before start-ups were cool, found love, lost it, and followed his heart all the way to New Zealand.
Part coming-of-age comedy, part immigrant memoir, part love letter to cricket and family, this book is ultimately about the unspoken power of resilience – and the unexpected ways grief, failure, and heartbreak can turn out to be your greatest teachers.
If you’ve ever chased a dream that didn’t make sense to anyone else, this book will remind you you’re not alone.
“[Viraj] writes well, his prose sharp and crisp. There’s never a dull moment. He never lets the ball drop. He’s one of those writers with the ability to make writing look easy.” Mike Johnson
