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A Novel
by Ayad Akhtar
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by Roshi Fernando
Published Jul 2013
Read ReviewsA stunning debut novel about an extended Sri Lankan family - a kaleidoscopic view of contemporary immigrant life, by turns darkly funny, sad, poignant, and uproariously beautiful.
by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Published Feb 2010
Read ReviewsA major literary debut that explores class, culture, power, and desire among the ruling and servant classes of Pakistan.
by Randa Jarrar
Published Aug 2009
Read ReviewsNidali narrates the story of her childhood in Kuwait, her teenage years in Egypt, and her familys last flight to Texas, offering a humorous, sharp but loving portrait of an eccentric middle-class family.
by Tom Shachtman
Published May 2007
Read ReviewsRumspringa is a fascinating look at a little-known Amish coming-of-age ritual, the rumspringa - a period when Amish youth are allowed to live outside the bounds of their faith, experimenting with alcohol, premarital sex, trendy clothes, telephones, drugs, and wild parties. By allowing them such freedom, their parents hope they will learn enough to...
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Published Sep 2004
Read ReviewsLahiri enriches the themes that made her collection, The Interpreter of Maladies, an international bestseller: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations.
by Khaled Hosseini
Published Apr 2004
Read ReviewsAn epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present.
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