Author Arandati Roy starts her magnum opus, The God of Small Things, with the descriptive and sensory language that she's become known for. Quote, "May in Amenum is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in still dust green trees.Red bananas ripen, jackf fruits burst, dissolute blue bottles hum vacuously in the fruity air. Then they stun themselves against clear window panes and die flatly baffled in the sun. The nights are clear but suf ...