With its churches, convents, seminaries, and Jesuit schools, Mangalore in South India, felt like a Catholic colony, to the author, who spent much of his childhood in churches, convents, and Jesuit boarding schools. In this collection of fiction and essays, the author gives an impression of life in Mangalore, then and now, when Catholicism is diminished but far from dead. The fiction includes overheard conversations among Mangalorean bluebloods (no relation of the Bloods and the Crips) and a Bishop complaining about his impatient and disrespectful sheep.By the author of "The Revised Kama Sutra: A Novel."