It's The Escalator I Can't Manage

Witty, funny and eminently readable, these sketches range from the author’s school and university days to stories of her ebullient granddaughter, Kitkat. Goolbai Gunasekara, a Sri Lankan writer, has the rare ability to laugh at herself and to poke fun at the goings-on of a variety of situations, be they at her school, ballet class,under the dentist’s drill or at a Do-You-Know-Contest.