{"id":41938,"date":"2017-04-06T10:44:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T14:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=41938"},"modified":"2017-04-06T11:19:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T15:19:27","slug":"no-world-rahul-mehta-library-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/no-world-rahul-mehta-library-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"No Other World by Rahul Mehta [in Library Journal]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-41816\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/02\/No-Other-World-by-Rahul-Mehta-530x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/02\/No-Other-World-by-Rahul-Mehta-530x800.jpg 530w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/02\/No-Other-World-by-Rahul-Mehta.jpg 672w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/> In this debut novel (following <em>Quarantine<\/em>), western New York in 1985 and western India in 1998 are introduced as prologue, with both time and place connected by the 12-going-on-13-year-old and 26-year-old versions of Kiran Shah, whose coming-of-age as a bicultural gay Indian American is the focus of the story.<\/p>\n<p>Kiran, a quiet boy with few friends, inappropriately obsessed with his \u201call-American\u201d neighbors, is one-quarter of his four-person family: father Nishit worries over his strained relationships with his left-behind Indian relatives, mother Shanti questions her American life as a result of her arranged marriage, and older sister Preeti suffers horrific abuse that eventually leads her away from her cultural roots.\u00a0A postcollege breakdown sends Kiran to his father\u2019s ancestral home on the other side of the world, where he develops a relationship with a teenage <em>hijra<\/em> (a member of India\u2019s community of trans women whose blessings are considered auspicious at a child\u2019s birth). The journey becomes the unexpected catalyst toward Kiran\u2019s healing and his (immediate) family\u2019s reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p>As exquisitely as Mehta sustains his mellifluous language throughout, his time-hopping narrative (a lifetime condensed into a single sentence, non sequitur mentions of what didn\u2019t happen, coy references to events yet to come) ultimately proves distracting and disappointing both.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/reviews.libraryjournal.com\/2017\/04\/books\/fiction\/fiction-from-kilpack-and-debuter-mehta-xpress-reviews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;Xpress Reviews,&#8221; <em>Library Journal<\/em>, April 6, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this debut novel (following Quarantine), western New York in 1985 and western India in 1998 are introduced as prologue, with both time and place connected by the 12-going-on-13-year-old and 26-year-old versions of Kiran Shah, whose coming-of-age as a bicultural gay Indian American is the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,52,53,6535,17,18],"tags":[84,6608,58,59,10,51,50,70,13,7265,39,7266],"class_list":["post-41938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-fiction","category-indian","category-indian-american","category-repost","category-south-asian","category-south-asian-american","tag-betrayal","tag-bookdragon","tag-coming-of-age","tag-cultural-exploration","tag-family","tag-identity","tag-lgbtqia","tag-library-journal","tag-love","tag-no-other-world","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-rahul-mehta"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - 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