Video: Stories by Meera Nair [in AsianWeek]
18 Jul, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Repost, Short Stories, South Asian, South Asian American
Debut collection filled with diverse, disturbing, haunting, entertaining miniatures of Indian and Indian American life.
Review: "New and Notable Fiction," AsianWeek, July 18, 2002
Readers: Adult
Published: 2002...
From traditional Indian folklore, Jaffrey reinvents and creates an entertaining tale of the faraway travels and adventures of a helpful elephant and the many friends he makes along the way.
Review: 
The best of the latest crop of South Asian diaspora titles is The Death of Vishnu, a startling debut novel, the first of a planned trilogy by math professor 
Another debut, Motherland tells the coming-of-age story of 15-year-old Maya. Afraid that she has become too Americanized growing up in New York, Maya's parents ship her off for the summer to the remote, mountaintop home of...
A startlingly complex novel, The Glass Palace opens with a literal bang, as British cannons thunder over the noise of a busy Burmese marketplace in 1885. A historical work that sweeps over a century...
The premise of this disappointing novel revolves around Ramji, who, by the time he arrives in the U.S. in 1968 from his home in Dar es Salaam, East Africa (now Tanzania), he is already doubly displaced....
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The Divine Dr. Deepak Chopra
Named by Time Magazine as one of their 100 heroes and icons of the century, earning him the title of “the poet-prophet of alternative medicine,” Dr....
Ashok, a young Indian American boy, wishes he had a more "American" name. So each day, Ashok tries a new moniker, from Tom to Walter to Frances, until...
The ruling Nawab requests the Maharajah to do an impossible task: to measure the earth and to count the stars, the sun’s rays, and the men on the moon. The Majarajah’s servant, Fat Gopal,...
Gay-Neck, an especially talented pigeon, is the pride of his owner, a young Indian boy from Calcutta. The bird spends a summer in the Himalayan mountains, honing his skills, and eventually proves to be a hero...
Independent, headstrong Sabah heads to India in search of her ethnic identity. What she finds in the wealthy world of her Indian relatives is a liberal Westernized culture bound by strict traditions, where the...
A retired civil servant living along the holy Narmada River whose banks are believed to contain 400 billion sacred places, comes into contact with numerous travelers and their mesmerizing stories, including an ascetic monk...
A collection of 11 short stories about young Indian and Indian American women, some married, some single, in various stages of claiming independence from their well-meaning but suffocating families and their oppressive patriarchal heritage....
Sarah, a young and naive New York Jew, impulsively marries Roland, an Indian immigrant from the Caribbean. Months after the wedding, Roland returns to his native Guiana, embroiled in its political turmoil....
A novel written entirely in verse, about the machinations of love in the modern age. John’s lonely, so Jan secretly runs a personal ad on his behalf. John finds Liz. Recently divorced Phil ends...
A delightful novel that follows immigrant graduate student Gita through her bumpy search for her ideal mate. In Chaitra 2040 – that is, March 1984 for the rest...
The acclaimed winner of the 1988 
Born Jyoti, meaning "light," in a small Indian village, she is renamed Jasmine by her husband. Suddenly widowed at 17, Jasmine escapes to America where she begins an odyssey through the country, eventually landing in Iowa...