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1	Interpreter of Maladies more books like this by Jhumpa Lahiri add to wishlist Most of the short stories in this debut volume are about marriage in one form or another. A New York Times Notable Book in 1999, this book also won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation more books like this by Eboo Patel add to wishlist "Acts of Faith" is a young Muslim activist's remarkable account of coming of age and coming to understand what led him toward religious pluralism rather than hatred. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.54! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Born Confused more books like this by Tanuja Desai Hidier, Marguerite Gavin (Read by) add to wishlist Dimple, a 17-year-old girl living in New Jersey feels torn between the world occupied by her traditional, Indian-born parents and that of the America she calls home. Dimple is appalled when her parents set her up with a "suitable" Indian boy named Karsh, a boy whom she immediately rejects as too soft-spoken. Then, when Dimple sees Karsh in another ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.31! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Jasmine more books like this by Bharati Mukherjee add to wishlist When Jasmine Vijh is widowed in India at 17, she seems fated to a life of isolation in an Indian village. But she flees to America where she becomes Jane Ripplemeyer, resident of Iowa, married and adoptive mother of a Vietnamese refugee. The author also wrote The Middleman and Other Stories . see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.77! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Arranged Marriage: Stories more books like this by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni add to wishlist This collection of short stories chronicles the experience of Indian-born women in America. Winner of the 1996 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award for Fiction, and the PEN Oakland Award for Fiction. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	In Hanuman's Hands: A Memoir more books like this by Cheeni Rao add to wishlist Expected to continue the family tradition and become a priest in rural India praying in the ancestral temples of Kali, he escapes to Williams College for his higher education. His previous life of abstinence and celibacy devolves into a life of violence and dealing drugs to the offspring of America's finest families at one of our nation's top ... see all copies from $2.56! new only from $13.50! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Shine, Coconut Moon more books like this by Neesha Dosanjh Meminger add to wishlist Samar is an Indian-American teenager whose mother has kept her away from her old-fashioned family. It's never been a problem for Sam, until after 9/11. A man in a turban shows up at Sam's house and turns out to be her uncle, who wants to reconcile the family and teach Sam about her Sikh heritage. see all copies from $3.13! new only from $3.93! \| SVS
8	Middleman and Other Stories more books like this by Bharati Mukherjee add to wishlist In these tales told by immigrants trying to make new lives in various American cities, their true search is for empowerment and dignity. Mukherjee's second collection was the winner of the 1988 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Interpreter of Maladies: Stories more books like this by Jhumpa Lahiri add to wishlist Scintillating studies in yearning and exile from a Bengali Bostonian woman writer of immense promise. A couple exchange unprecedented confessions during nightly blackouts in their Boston apartment as they struggle to cope with a heartbreaking loss; a student arrives in new lodgings in a mystifying new land and, while he awaits the arrival of his ... see all copies from $11.00! new only from $24.39! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Naming Maya more books like this by Uma Krishnaswami add to wishlist West meets East Although Maya has done her best to avoid it, she is spending part of her summer in Chennai, India, with her mother, who is trying to sell her grandfather's old house. Soon Maya is drawn into a complicated friendship with eccentric Kamala Mami, who has been a housekeeper and cook for years in Maya's extended family. At the same ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.31! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Karma of Brown Folk more books like this by Vijay Prashad add to wishlist On a vast canvas, The Karma of Brown Folk attacks the two pillars of the "model minority" image, that South Asians are both inherently successful and pliant, and analyzes the ways in which U.S. immigration policy and American Orientalism have perpetuated these stereotypes. Prashad uses irony, humor, razor-sharp criticism, personal reflections, and ... see all copies from $5.27! new only from $17.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Bride Wore Red more books like this by Robbie Clipper Sethi add to wishlist Short stories about Anglo-Indian marriages and relationships. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.87! \| first editions
13 view cover	Tiger's Daughter more books like this by Bharati Mukherjee add to wishlist Tara, born in Calcutta, India, and educated in Poughkeepsie, New York, returns to her native land and discovers an India quite different from the country she remembered. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $247.36! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Unknown Errors of Our Lives more books like this by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni add to wishlist In this collection, Chitra Divakaruni weaves tales of India and of new settlers in America. A young girl protects her small brother from the wrath of her father and the stain of poverty; and a widowed grandmother arrives in America to stay with her only son and his children. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Karma and Other Stories more books like this by Rishi Reddi add to wishlist In this sparkling collection, award-winning writer Rishi Reddi weaves a multigenerational tapestry of interconnected lives, depicting members of an Indian American community struggling to balance the demands of tradition with the allure of Western life. In "Lord Krishna," a teenager is offended when his evangelical history teacher likens the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Life Lines: Community, Family, and Assimilation Among Asian Indian Immigrants more books like this by Jean Bacon add to wishlist Asian Indians figure prominently among the educated, middle class subset of contemporary immigrants. They move quickly into residences, jobs, and lifestyles that provide little opportunity with fellow migrants, yet they continue to see themselves as a distinctive community within contemporary American society. In Life Lines Bacon chronicles the ... see all copies from $2.49! new only from $2.49! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Lowji Discovers America more books like this by Candace Fleming add to wishlist A nine-year-old East Indian boy tries to adjust to his new life in suburban America. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| SVS
18 view cover	Bombay Talkie more books like this by Ameena Meer add to wishlist Sabah, a young American woman of Indian heritage, sets out to discover her identity in India, only to stumble into a decadent, upper-class demi-monde. Ameena Meer presents a portrait of a generation of young Indians as confused by Westernization as they are tied to tradition and family. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.60! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Blue Jasmine more books like this by Kashmira Sheth add to wishlist With lyrical language and poignant scenes, Sheth unearths the meaning of "home" and "family" in this tender debut novel based on her own experiences as a teenager who moved by herself from India to America. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Leaving Yuba City: Poems more books like this by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni add to wishlist The third collection of poetry by an Indian writer whose first novel, "The Mistress of Spices", won wide critical acclaim. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.18! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Shock of Arrival: Reflections on Postcolonial Experience more books like this by Meena Alexander add to wishlist Acclaimed South Asian American poet and novelist Meena Alexander unleashes a fury of prose and poetry to confront the stereotypes and explore the challenges facing postcolonial immigrants in America. Her project: "to make space for what was crossed out in the decorum of femininity, in the high places of classical hierarchy, in the racism of a ... see all copies from $2.58! new only from $4.75! \| signed copies \| SVS
22 view cover	Passport Photos more books like this by Amitava Kumar add to wishlist A multigenre volume combining theory, poetry, cultural criticism, and photography, this text explores the complexities of the immigration experience, intervening in the impersonal language of the state. Organized as a passport, "Passport Photos" takes as its object of analysis and engagement the lived experience of post-coloniality - especially in ... see all copies from $3.95! new only from $11.93! \| SVS
23 view cover	What I Meant... more books like this by Marie Lamba add to wishlist Lambas debut novel tells the story of how 15-year-old Sangeet Jumnals sleepy suburban life suddenly gets super complicated after her aunt moves in with her family. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| SVS
24 view cover	Suburban Sahibs more books like this by S Mitra Kalita add to wishlist Three Indian families come to America, settle in the New Jersey suburbs, and become the subjects of this study, which follows each family as its members try to cope with racism, bureaucracy, jobs, and raising a new generation of children who must straddle two worlds. see all copies from $3.00! new only from $16.93! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Motiba's Tattoos a Granddaughter's Journey Into Her Indian Family's Past more books like this by Mira Kamdar add to wishlist The story of the Indian Diaspora--the great migration of Indians from their homeland to the New World--through one woman's memories of her remarkable family. . Delving back into the world into which her grandmother was born in a tiny village in Kathiawar, India, Mira Kamdar begins a wondrous journey into the past. She follows her family as it ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.90! \| signed copies \| first editions

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