Preface - Summer, 2017 We decided to spend our annual vacation in America. One of the highlights of the trip was meeting my extended family. It was pleasant to catch up with first cousins whom I had met only sporadically since they had relocated from India more than two decades ago. As we watched the children happily playing together, we reminisced about our own childhood - endless summer vacations, when my family and those of my three aunts would descend on my grandmother's house in Delhi, and nine children aged between five and fifteen would create complete mayhem.