Search Results: Returned 16 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 16
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2022., Penguin Books Call No: NEW Fic Mat Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: From an exhilarating new voice comes a dazzling debut novel about an Indian-American immigrant building a life for herself in the Midwest-a brilliant and utterly absorbing story of love, friendship, and precarity in 21st century America Graduating into the trough of yet another American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. However mind-numbing the work, her entry-level consulting job is the key that unlocks every door: she can pick up the check for her growing circle of friends in Milwaukee, send money home to her parents in India, and dare to envision a stable future for herself. She even begins dating who she has long wanted-women-and soon develops a crush on Marina, a beautiful dancer who always seems just out of reach. But then, as quickly as it came together, Sneha's life begins to fall apart. Her job and apartment are both suddenly and maddeningly in jeopardy, and closely-guarded secrets and buried traumas resurface, sending her spiraling into shame and isolation. When a chance encounter with Marina ignites an electric romance, it looks like salvation-if only they can overcome the lie that threatens to undo the trust they've built. A novel of working lives, friendships, and self-discovery in flux, All This Could Be Different is a wry, intimate, and redemptive exploration of the freedom and fragility of youth, and what it means to devote oneself to others in search of a better world.
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1995., Anchor Books Call No: Fic Div Edition: 1st Anchor Books ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2007., Highbridge Co. Connect to this title Summary Note: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of cultures and generations. In "A temporary matter," published in The New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces the heartbreak of a stillborn birth, while their Boston neighborhood copes with a nightly blackout. In the title story, an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors and hears an astonishing confession. Lahiri writes with deft cultural insight reminiscent of Anita Desai and a nuanced depth that recalls Mavis Gallant.
![Interpreter of maladies [eBook] : stories](/Library/images/~imageCT101774.JPG "Interpreter of maladies [eBook] : stories")
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2004., Farrar, Straus, and Giroux Call No: Fic Ali Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2011., Adult, Biblioasis Call No: Fic Bla Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The Meagre Tarmac" is master storywriter Clark Blaise's first new collection of short fiction in nearly two decades. A suite of linked stories about the trials and tribulations of several generations of Indo Americans, "The Meagre Tarmac" reminds readers why Blaise is one of the most important storywriters of his generation, and a true North American treasure. This is vintage Blaise: stories straddling borders, clashing cultures and traditions, poverty, affluence, despair, and hope, offering an outsider's view of the changing heart of America that is both ruthless and profoundly moving.
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2004, c2003., Houghton Mifflin Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: A young man born of Indian parents in America struggles with issues of identity from his teens to his thirties.
![The namesake [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT74719.JPG "The namesake [eBook]")
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2021., Adult, 07:48:32., Novel Audio Edition: Unabridged. Connect to this eAudiobook title Summary Note: Spanning more than half a century and cities from New Delhi to Atlanta, Anjali Enjeti's debut is a heartfelt and human portrait of the long shadow of the Partition of the Indian subcontinent on the lives of three generations. The story begins in August 1947. Unrest plagues the streets of New Delhi leading up to the birth of the Muslim majority nation of Pakistan, and the Hindu majority nation of India. Sixteen-year-old Deepa navigates the changing politics of her home, finding solace in messages of intricate origami from her secret boyfriend Amir. Soon Amir flees with his family to Pakistan and a tragedy forces Deepa to leave the subcontinent forever. The story also begins nearly seven decades later and half a world away, in Atlanta. While grieving both a pregnancy loss and the implosion of her marriage, Deepa's granddaughter Shan begins the search for her estranged grandmother, a prickly woman who had no interest in knowing her. When she begins to piece together her family history shattered by the Partition, Shan discovers how little she actually knows about her ancestors and what they endured. For readers of Jess Walter's Beautiful Ruins and Min Jin Lee's Pachinko, The Parted Earth follows characters on their search for identity after loss uproots their lives. Above all, it is a novel about families weathering the lasting violence of separation, and how it can often take a lifetime to find unity and peace. Beautifully performed by Audie nominated Deepti Gupta.
![The parted earth [eAudiobook]](/Library/images/~imageCT102023.JPG "The parted earth [eAudiobook]")
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2018., Adult, SJP for Hogarth Call No: Fic Mir Edition: 1st United States ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A story of family identity and belonging follows an Indian family through the marriage of their daughter, from the parents' arrival in the United States to the return of their estranged son.
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Ã2018., SJP for Hogarth, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group Edition: eBook edition. eBook edition. Summary Note: A story of family identity and belonging follows an Indian family through the marriage of their daughter, from the parents' arrival in the United States to the return of their estranged son.
![A place for us [eBook] : a novel](/Library/images/~imageCT85512.JPG "A place for us [eBook] : a novel")
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-- Sleep walker's guide to dancing.[2014], Random House Call No: Fic Jac Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Decades after an interrupted visit to his mother's home in 1979 India triggers a haunting series of events, brain surgeon Thomas Eapen begins having conversations with his dead relatives, prompting his daughter to investigate a painful family history.
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c2014., Adult, Harper/HarperCollins Call No: Fic Umr Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A profound, heartbreakingly honest novel about friendship, family, secrets, forgiveness, and second chances An experienced psychologist, Maggie carefully maintains emotional distance from her patients. But when she meets a young Indian woman who tried to kill herself, her professional detachment disintegrates. Cut off from her family in India, Lakshmi is desperately lonely and trapped in a loveless marriage to a domineering man who limits her world to their small restaurant and grocery store. Moved by her plight, Maggie treats Lakshmi in her home office for free, quickly realizing that the despondent woman doesn't need a shrink; she needs a friend. Determined to empower Lakshmi as a woman who feels valued in her own right, Maggie abandons protocol, and soon doctor and patient have become close friends. But while their relationship is deeply affectionate, it is also warped by conflicting expectations. When Maggie and Lakshmi open up and share long-buried secrets, the revelations will jeopardize their close bond, shake their faith in each other, and force them to confront painful choices."--Publisher.
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c2015., Lake Union Publishing Call No: Fic Bad Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When her father falls into a coma, Indian American photographer Sonya reluctantly returns to the family she'd fled years before. Her soft-spoken sister, Trisha, has created a perfect suburban life, and her ambitious sister, Marin, has built her own successful career. But as these women come together, their various methods of coping with a terrifying history can no longer hold their memories at bay. Buried secrets rise to the surface, and as their father's condition worsens the daughters and their mother wrestle with private hopes for his survival or death, as well as their own demons and buried secrets.
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2002., Anchor Books Call No: NEW Fic Div Edition: First Anchor books edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A collection of short stories set in India explores the adjustment of immigrants to a foreign land, the accommodations families make to the differences between generations, and the struggle to find a balance between the pull of home and the promise of change.
