The selected fiction of Rohinton Mistry encompasses a fictional world imbued with reality: the metropolitan, middle, and lower-middle-class Parsi family. The metropolis is usually identified as Bombay/Mumbai. The characters are stuck between poverty and religion, desperate to find a way out. The selected texts deal with themes which plague the society at large: class, gender, caste and official hierarchies. His selected fiction i.e., Tales from Firozsha Baag and Family Matters traverse the

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... ding circles of family, neighbourhood, community, and country. The family is an ambivalent space in Mistry's oeuvre. It is a circumscribed space but still acts as a comforting space. It dives deep into the cosmos of feelings, relationships, attitudes and behaviours. His oeuvre acts as a microcosm where the home and the world are juxtaposed. Mistry's own experiences as an outsider in Canada led him to compare both. He unearths a peculiarity while comparing India to a multi-cultural land like Canada, which is the base of most of his fiction. Therefore, this piece of work aims to explore the ideas of family and community, the idea of a home left behind, and how the home and the world converse in selected texts of Rohinton Mistry.