The book starts with the birth of the Cookie Monster. However gives no information regarding it's parents. I feel like that's an important information which is missing. The story progressed nicely after that walking us through it's childhood shenanigans. And finally introduced us the Monster in his teen years where he is shown as a frustrated adolescent who is irritated that people around him don't understand him and what he says.
In the end it is all happy as his babysitter understand him.

It's a small read, took me around 40 minutes or so to read it. The story is set in Waziristan and is about a family struggling with its identity. I don't know if I want to say that it is about accepting others for what they are. The flow of story did imply that that is what it is all about, but unfortunately failed to show it. There are some good lines, and the dialogues are quite verbose, which adds a bit of flair to the whole story. I quite liked it. What I loved most though, was the background song. There is a central theme to the story, and the end/beginning of each chapter the author adds a few lines of a poem or song, and that gives it a wonderful kind of continuity.
Quite an interesting story!