Indu Sundaresan’s The Mountain of Light (2013)

2020-03-31T12:17:55-04:00

Take Tanis Rideout's Above All Things or Mary Novik's Muse: history is stuffed with stories begging to be retold. "Fiction and nonfiction both have to be true, but nonfiction has to be fact-checkable as well." So says Phllip Gourevitch. Indu Sundaresan's The Mountain of Light might not be fact-checkable, but

Indu Sundaresan’s The Mountain of Light (2013)2020-03-31T12:17:55-04:00

Shree Ghatage’s Awake When All the World is Asleep (1997)

2014-03-20T15:11:08-04:00

Two years before everybody was talking about Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies, Shree Ghatage's collection was published. Awake When All the World is Asleep considers similar themes, and also presents a wide variety of narrators in both Indian and North American settings. (Okay, it didn't win a Pulitzer, but

Shree Ghatage’s Awake When All the World is Asleep (1997)2014-03-20T15:11:08-04:00

Anita Rau Badami’s Tamarind Mem (1996)

2014-03-13T20:18:23-04:00

Anita Rau Badami's Tamarind Mem (1996) Penguin Books, 1998 Tamarind Mem opens with a telephone call, from Kamini (who is studying in Calgary) to her mother (in India). Tension mingles with fondness: it’s an introduction in broad strokes. The conversation is relayed from Kamini’s perspective and then the narrative slips

Anita Rau Badami’s Tamarind Mem (1996)2014-03-13T20:18:23-04:00

Tishani Doshi’s The Pleasure Seekers (2010)

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Tishani Doshi’s The Pleasure Seekers Bloomsbury, 2010 (Looking for a swallow rather than a full glass? ORANGE Squirt below.) Tishani Doshi’s debut opens with Prem Kumar Patel, 47 years old, and his wife, Trishala, sending off their oldest son, Babo, to England, with three younger children remaining at home. The

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