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Seeking fortune elsewhere : stories

Call Number

  • FICTION BHAN (CEN)

Publication Information

New York : Catapult, [2022]

Physical Description

226 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

"This debut from O. Henry Prize winner Sindya Bhanoo offers intimate stories of South Indian immigrants and the families they left behind, centering women's lives and asking how women claim and surrender power. Traveling from Pittsburgh to 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."--

Contents

  • Malliga homes
  • Life in America
  • Buddymoon
  • Amma
  • Nature exchange
  • His holiness
  • No. 16 Model House Road
  • Three trips.

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