In a heart-to-heart language embellished with fresh and telling images, this novel portrays the anxieties and miseries faced by the unemployed Sivathanu after marrying the daughter of a wealthy couple on the compulsion of his indigent parents. The drama gathers steam as this touchy, high-minded young man and his family are subjected to heart-rending insults one after another by his wife Parvathi and her parents. Yet, Wrong Side Up affirms life as any great novel should, when Sivathanu finally gets rid of his self-consuming doubts and asserts himself as the confident head of his family.