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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Sindya BhanooPublish date:2023-05-16Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:CatapultISBN-13:9781646221738ISBN-10:1646221737UPC:9781646221738Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), World Literature, WomenBook Topic:IndiaSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCFQNR7486
These intimate stories of South Indian immigrants and the families they left behind center women's lives and ask how women both claim and surrender power--a stunning debut collection from an O. Henry Prize winner

Traveling from Pittsburgh to Eastern Washington to Tamil Nadu, these stories about dislocation and dissonance see immigrants and their families confront the costs of leaving and staying, identifying sublime symmetries in lives growing apart.

In "Malliga Homes," selected by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for an O. Henry Prize, a widow in a retirement community glimpses her future while waiting for her daughter to visit from America. In "No. 16 Model House Road," a woman long subordinate to her husband makes a choice of her own after she inherits a house. In "Nature Exchange," a mother grieving in the wake of a school shooting finds an unusual obsession. In "A Life in America," a professor finds himself accused of having exploited his graduate students.

Sindya Bhanoo's haunting stories show us how immigrants' paths, and the paths of those they leave behind, are never simple. Bhanoo takes us along on their complicated journeys where regret, hope, and triumph appear in disguise.
Language:EnglishPublisher:CatapultISBN-13:9781646221738ISBN-10:1646221737UPC:9781646221738Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), World Literature, WomenBook Topic:IndiaSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCFQNR7486
Sindya Bhanoo's fiction has appeared in Granta, New England Review, Glimmer Train, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of an O. Henry Award, the Disquiet Literary Prize and scholarships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee writers conferences. A longtime newspaper reporter, she has worked for The New York Times and The Washington Post. She is a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers, UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism and Carnegie Mellon University. She lives in Corvallis, OR and teaches at Oregon State University.
Publisher: Catapult

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