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008			220926s2023 nyu 000 1 eng
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092			_aINJAM, _bNISHANTH
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100	1		_aInjam, Nishanth, _eauthor.
240	1	0	_aBest possible experience (Compilation)
245	1	4	_aThe best possible experience : _bstories / _cNishanth Injam.
250			_aFirst edition.
263			_a2307
264		1	_aNew York : _bPantheon Books, _c[2023]
300			_a212 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aThe bus -- Come with me -- The immigrant -- Summers of waiting -- Lunch at Paddy's -- Sunday evening with ice cream -- The protocol -- The math of living -- The Zamindar's watch -- The sea -- Best possible experience.
520			_a"An astonishingly assured debut from an award-winning writer, an emotionally rich portrait of contemporary India and its diaspora and a yearning rendering of the people and places we call home. Vivid, vibrant, and unwaveringly affecting, The Best Possible Experience brings us intimate, impeccably realized accounts of individuals living in one of the most populous countries in the world, and its American diaspora, all haunted, in every sense of the word, by a loss of home. Classically elegant in prose and consistently modern in outlook, Injam's stories question what it means to have a home, to return home, and show, above all, that home is not a place so much as a people ready to accept you as you are. We see a young man trapped on a bus to visit his parents as his fellow passengers vanish into the restroom. A family, newly in America, determined to host a perfect luncheon for their son's white classmate, with no idea what to serve him. A woman who returns to a small village in India every summer to visit the grandfather who raised her, who lives with the ghosts of his son and wife. And a man preparing for his Green Card interview with the American woman he's paid to marry him. A sui generis talent, Injam first started writing after coming to America from India in his twenties. The Best Possible Experience, his profoundly personal debut collection, delivers a universal inquiry into the idea of belonging and preserves in writing a home he left behind before it was lost to him forever"-- _cProvided by publisher
650		0	_aEast Indians _vFiction. _9143673
650		0	_aEast Indians _zUnited States _vFiction. _9110639
650		0	_aEast Indian Americans _vFiction. _968365
650		0	_aBelonging (Social psychology) _vFiction. _9233030
651		0	_aIndia _vFiction. _957879
655		7	_aShort stories. _2lcgft _91945
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