Seeking fortune elsewhere : stories / Sindya Bhanoo.

Title:

ISBN:

9781646220878

Personal Author:

Bhanoo, Sindya

Publication Information:

New York : Catapult, [2022]

Physical Description:

226 pages ; 22 cm

Contents:

Malliga homes -- A life in America -- Buddymoon -- Amma -- Nature exchange -- His Holiness -- No 16 Model House Road -- Three trips.

Summary:

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

Subject Term:

Women, East Indian -- Fiction.

Immigrants -- Fiction

Families -- Fiction

Genre:

Short stories

Added Author:

Container of (work) : Bhanoo, Sindya. Malliga homes.

Container of (work) : Bhanoo, Sindya. Life in America.

Container of (work) : Bhanoo, Sindya. Buddymoon.

Container of (work) : Bhanoo, Sindya. Amma.

Container of (work) : Bhanoo, Sindya. Nature exchange.