Animal People

I am presently reading Animal People too.
It is a handicapped boys view on the world around him
He is living on a small street where a British Companies burning caused abundant deaths
directly and indirectly.
He himself became retarded because of the explosion.
He had lost his parents and became an orphan because of the explosion.
He is part of a group of people working to get compensation from the factory for the losses they
have incurred
There came a British lady Doctor, whom all of them despised but slowly she befriends with the boy
and then with the people even though they kept aloof from her with all their might. She promises the boy to make him normal by taking him back to her country and giving him the latest medications. The boy believe in her and it became his secret joy and dream as he wanted to marry
Nisha a beautiful, educated and courageous girl in his group. But it becomes a great shock for him to know that the lady Doctor is really the companies envoy.

will continue...