An utterly irresistible first novel: The story of two sisters, the yearning to disappear into another country, and the powerful desire to return to the known world. Linno is a gifted artist, despite a childhood accident that has left her badly maimed, and Anju is one of Kerala s most promising students. Both girls dream of coming to the United States, but it is Anju who wins a scholarship to a prestigious school in New York. She seizes it, even though it means lying and betraying her sister. When her lie is discovered, Anju disappears. Back in Kerala, Linno is undergoing a transformation of...
An utterly irresistible first novel: The story of two sisters, the yearning to disappear into another country, and the powerful desire to return to th...
From the acclaimed author of "Atlas of Unknowns," a bravura collection of short stories--set, by turns, in London, Sierra Leone, and the American Midwest--that captures the yearning and dislocation of young men and women around the world. In "Light & Luminous," a gifted instructor of Indian dance falls victim to the vanity and insecurities that have followed her into middle age. In ""The Scriptological Review" A Last Letter from the Editor," a damaged young man obsessively studies his father's handwriting in hopes of making sense of his suicide. And in "What to Do with Henry," a white...
From the acclaimed author of "Atlas of Unknowns," a bravura collection of short stories--set, by turns, in London, Sierra Leone, and the American M...
