Karma and Other Stories by Rishi Reddi [in Bloomsbury Review]
01 May, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian American, Repost, Short Stories, South Asian American, Young Adult Readers
Reddi’s debut – absolutely one of the best short story collections this year – captures the nuanced, often contradictory lives of multiple generations of the Indian diaspora. From the cranky old judge convinced he has...
A fluffy, fast read to warm the heart: gorgeous Lakshmi hides behind glasses as she looks deep into others’ lives while helping women find the perfect sari. Always the dutiful daughter, she agrees to her matchmaking...
A Bangladeshi immigrant family heads to Canada in search of asylum. When the father is inexplicably arrested at the border, the two daughters return alone to New York, where friends and family are disappearing without explanation....
Loss dominates the lives of the inhabitants of a crumbling, stately home on the Indian-Nepali border along the Himalayas. The Cambridge University-educated, self-hating judge’s isolated life is disrupted by the arrival of his young granddaughter, Sai,...
Anu moves away from all that is familiar only to find that she has ghosts in her new closet – that is, until Hanuman the Hindu monkey god comes through her window to help her help...
LITEROTICA
Erotica Writer Mary Anne Mohanraj Goes Mainstream with Bodies in Motion: Stories
Over the past eight years, Mary Ann Mohanraj has published 10 books, establishing herself as a master – or should that be mistress? – of...
Another book version of one of my all-time favorite listservs, AWAD (A Word A Day), which highlights the ‘who, what and why’ of some amazing words: The facinorous yegg who imprested the...
The turbulent mother-daughter relationship between world-renowned filmmaker Deepa Mehta and her photographer/journalist daughter is interwoven into a fascinating account of how Mehta’s latest film, Water, came to be. As the final installment of Mehta’s...
When Lina is bombarded by relatives who want to marry her off at her sister’s Indian wedding, she unthinkingly wards off the well-wishers by making up the perfect fiancé supposedly waiting for her back...
Meena is worried that she is too clumsy to be a tree in the school play. But when she takes a children’s yoga class, and improves with each week, she discovers a solidly rooted...
Recently re-released under this new title, this charming coming-of-age tale introduces teenager Sunita Sen, a tennis-playing, pizza-craving, California girl who suddenly becomes self-conscious of her Indian heritage when...
When her Hollywood agent sends D-lister Raveena Rai overseas to star in a Bollywood film, she gets stuck with a lecherous director and a tongue-tied though gorgeous co-star. Fun, silly romp just in time...
Got the publication date confused and held it longer than intended – but can’t let it go without saying this is a grand coming-of-age story. Jazz Gardner travels to India with her family where...
A careful examination of 48 second-generation South Asian Americans whose parents arrived from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal during 1965 and the mid-1980s. Through personal stories and sociological context, Purkayastha explores how this second...
This one is just delicious – and delightfully plotted as to how it plays with time and place and people. The beginning: a man, a woman,...
Somehow missed this title earlier, even as it won the 2004 Paul Zindel First Novel Award. While the story is familiar – a young girl moves from a loving home filled with extended family...
THE perfect travel companion, filled with some of the very best writers of the international South Asian diaspora, from Jhumpa Lahiri to Rohinton Mistry to Michael Ondaatje.
Review: 
Local Bay Area author recounts the inspiring life stories of 21 South Asian American women scattered around the country.
Review: