Seeking Fortune Elsewhere

Author: Sindya Bhanoo
ISBN: 9781646220878

Finalist for the Institute for Immigration Research New American Voices AwardThese intimate stories of South Indian immigrants and the families they left behind center women’s lives and ask how women both claim and surrender power—a stunning debut collection from an O. Henry Prize winnerTraveling from Pittsburgh to Eastern Washington to Tamil Nadu, these stories about dislocation and dissonance see immigrants and their families confront the costs of leaving and staying, identifying sublime symmetries in lives growing apart.In “Malliga Homes,” selected by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for an O. Henry Prize, a widow in a retirement community glimpses her future while waiting for her daughter to visit from America. In "No. 16 Model House Road," a woman long subordinate to her husband makes a choice of her own after she inherits a house. In "Nature Exchange," a mother grieving in the wake of a school shooting finds an unusual obsession. In "A Life in America," a professor finds himself

Publisher: Catapult
Publish Date: 2022-03-08

Subjects: Fiction / Short Stories (single author), Fiction / World Literature / India / 21st Century, Fiction / Women

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Fiction)