{"id":42853,"date":"2017-10-16T11:12:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T15:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=42853"},"modified":"2017-10-08T22:41:47","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T02:41:47","slug":"no-one-can-pronounce-my-name-rakesh-satyal-library-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/no-one-can-pronounce-my-name-rakesh-satyal-library-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"No One Can Pronounce My Name by Rakesh Satyal [in Library Journal]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-42255\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/05\/No-One-Can-Pronouce-My-Name-by-Rakesh-Satyal-on-BookDragon-530x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/05\/No-One-Can-Pronouce-My-Name-by-Rakesh-Satyal-on-BookDragon-530x800.jpg 530w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/05\/No-One-Can-Pronouce-My-Name-by-Rakesh-Satyal-on-BookDragon.jpg 636w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/rakeshsatyalbooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Rakesh Satyal<\/a> (<em>Blue Boy<\/em>) brings together two couldn&#8217;t-be-more-different Indian Americans for friendship, fun, and more (no, not like that). Harit, a department store salesman, has recently lost his sister; his mother, catatonic with grief, only reacts when Harit dons a sari and channels his dead sibling. Ranjana seems better-adjusted, but the gulf in her arranged marriage widens when her only child goes to college; her single true fulfillment is writing vampire romances that she&#8217;d never share with her family.\u00a0The unlikely pair finally meet over a fancy meal and bond over the gooey challenge of eating French onion soup. Uncomfortable gatherings, a road trip \u00e0 quatre, and unexpected happy beginnings await.<\/p>\n<p>Narrator Amol Shah is well-cast here, moving easily between awkward Harit and unsettled Ranjana, as well as a diverse supporting cast with distinct accents and cadences, including aging sophisticate Teddy (Harit&#8217;s sales colleague); lost Achyut (Ranjana&#8217;s &#8220;good gay friend&#8221;); searching Prashant (Ranjana&#8217;s son); morphing Parvati (Harit&#8217;s mother), who is so markedly different before and after her motherhood; garrulous Cheryl (Ranjana&#8217;s coreceptionist); and many others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verdict<\/strong>: What might meander on the page becomes more enlivening fodder for Shah. Libraries will want to enable listening in.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookverdict.com\/details.xqy?uri=Product2017-10-01-6223391.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Audio,&#8221; <em>Library Journal<\/em>, October 1, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rakesh Satyal (Blue Boy) brings together two couldn&#8217;t-be-more-different Indian Americans for friendship, fun, and more (no, not like that). 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