Mistry adopts an oral narrative pattern as an Indian storytelling device and also as a postmodernist narrative technique. ‘Squatter’ is a story in which Mistry uses his character Nariman Hansotia to narrate the stories in third person, allowing Mistry to use the audience of children as a tool to explore the complex themes and tones contained within the story and discuss them more in depth as it progresses. His stories deal with cultural collisions in a rich and imaginative way. Weaved into the stories are references relating to the struggles encountered by a Parsi immigrant in Canada, for whom the relentless need to create a homeland for himself becomes a ‘pain in the posterior’ (Mistry, 2008 [1987], p255). It is an enormously engaging story
