If you see me, don't say hi

Author

Neel Patel

Call Number

• FICTION PATE (CEN, OSH)

Edition

First edition.

Languages

Text in English.

Publication Information

New York : Flatiron Books, 2018.

Physical Description

208 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

In eleven sharp, surprising stories, Neel Patel gives voice to our most deeply held stereotypes and then slowly undermines them. His characters, almost all of who are first-generation Indian Americans, subvert our expectations that they will sit quietly by. We meet two brothers caught in an elaborate web of envy and loathing; a young gay man who becomes involved with an older man whose secret he could never guess; three women who almost gleefully throw off the pleasant agreeability society asks of them; and, in the final pair of linked stories, a young couple struggling against the devastating force of community gossip.

Contents

• god of destruction
• hare rama, hare krishna
• hey, loser
• just a friend
• if you see me, don't say hi
• the taj mahal
• the other language
• these things happen
• an arrangement --world famous
• radha, krishna