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Seeking fortune elsewhere : stories / Sindya Bhanoo.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Catapult, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 226 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781646220878
  • 1646220870
Uniform titles:
  • Short stories. Selections
Related works:
  • Container of (work) : Bhanoo, Sindya. Malliga homes
  • Container of (work) : Bhanoo, Sindya. Life in America
  • Container of (work) : Bhanoo, Sindya. Buddymoon
  • Container of (work) : Bhanoo, Sindya. Amma
  • Container of (work) : Bhanoo, Sindya. Nature exchange
  • Container of (work) : Bhanoo, Sindya. His holiness
  • Container of (work) : Bhanoo, Sindya. No. 16 Model House Road
  • Container of (work) : Bhanoo, Sindya. Three trips
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Malliga homes -- A life in America -- Buddymoon -- Amma -- Nature exchange -- His holiness -- No. 16 Model House Road -- Three trips.
Summary: "These 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"-- Provided by publisher.Summary: Traveling from Pittsburgh to Washington to Tamil Nadu, these astonishing stories about dislocation and dissonance see immigrants and their families confront the costs of leaving and staying, identifying sublime symmetries in lives growing apart.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction BHANOO, SINDYA Available 33111010811145
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

*Winner of the 2022 New American Voices Award*
*Winner of the 2023 Oregon Book Award for Fiction*

Finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection
Finalist for the Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction
Longlisted for the 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excellence
Longlisted for The Story Prize

These 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 winner

Traveling 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 accused of having exploited his graduate students.

Sindya Bhanoo's haunting stories show us how immigrants' paths, and the paths of those they leave behind, are never simple. Bhanoo takes us along on their complicated journeys where regret, hope, and triumph appear in disguise.

"These 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Traveling from Pittsburgh to Washington to Tamil Nadu, these astonishing stories about dislocation and dissonance see immigrants and their families confront the costs of leaving and staying, identifying sublime symmetries in lives growing apart.

Malliga homes -- A life in America -- Buddymoon -- Amma -- Nature exchange -- His holiness -- No. 16 Model House Road -- Three trips.

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