The book The Toss of a Lemon by Padma Viswanathan is a In a fiction debut to challenger of The God of Small Things, Padma Viswanathan provides an ornately detailed and close vision of an India which we never knew. Stirred by her family history, the author brings us profound facts about the private lives of a Brahmin family as the subcontinent moves through sixty years of extreme social and political change. This is an extremely good read and well-written book.