In this author's first novel, Pinky falls in love 
In this author's first novel, Pinky falls in love with an ice cream boy, and the protagonist becomes a celebrity by pretending to be a holy man named the Monkey Baba, since he lives in a tree with some monkeys.  In another novel by this author, a dog named Mutt goes missing, enraging an aging judge, who beats his cook for letting it out of his sight. This author of Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard is best known for a novel in which the physics and math tutor Gyan has a falling out with one of the main characters over the fact that she celebrates Christmas instead of Hindu holidays. That novel begins with militant Gurkhas robbing guns from a house near Kangchenjunga, and it follows characters like Biju, an illegal immigrant who works at various restaurants in the United States, and Sai Mistry. She is the daughter of the author of In Custody and Fasting, Feasting. For 10 points, name this author of The Inheritance of Loss.
In this author's first novel, Pinky falls in love with an ice cream boy, and the protagonist becomes a celebrity by pretending to be a holy man named the Monkey Baba, since he lives in a tree with some monkeys.  
Kiran Desai