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Kiran Desai gives credit for her winning The Man Booker Award to President George Bush. Desai says that while she has lived in NYC for 20 years, she still has yet to apply for American citizen ship because of her dislike of Pres. Bush and his policies. The book takes you through the life of some undocumented workers and shows how they are treated by “employers”, how they live and how they cope.