"The Boy Who Said No is first and foremost a story of people and their travails, the world in which they live, the colors and the sights?a story of mystical and mythical India.
The reader will encounter the baked hardness of the dry summer, the lovely, soft greenness of the monsoon, the menacing river in a raging storm that brings out the hero and the humor in a village, and the cruelly severe customs involved in owning and losing land. "