"Reconceptualizes the great American road trip, centering Indian immigrants-particularly, Tamil women-and their children as its drivers and passengers. These eight stories investigate the many ways that loneliness can enter a life and Bhanoo makes the reader feel every heartbreak through her skillful, measured prose." -Jenny Shank, Star Tribune "Yearning drives the characters in Sindya Bhanoo's elegant, sensitive debut collection Seeking Fortune Elsewhere. These stories rattle and shake with the heartache of separation, rendering palpable the magnitude of small decisions in our less-than-small world." -Samantha Hunt, The New York Times Book Review Bhanoo’s focus is clear and tightly observed, centering the decisions and difficulties of a global life, some of them gut-wrenching. Kirkus Reviews, A Best Fiction Book of the Year Longlisted for the 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excellence Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collectionįinalist for the Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction *Winner of the 2023 Oregon Book Award for Fiction*įinalist for the PEN/Robert W. Praise For This Book *Winner of the 2022 New American Voices Award* Bhanoo takes us along on their complicated journeys where regret, hope, and triumph appear in disguise. Sindya Bhanoo’s haunting stories show us how immigrants’ paths, and the paths of those they leave behind, are never simple. In “A Life in America,” a professor finds himself accused of having exploited his graduate students. In “Nature Exchange,” a mother grieving in the wake of a school shooting finds an unusual obsession. 16 Model House Road,” a woman long subordinate to her husband makes a choice of her own after she inherits a house. Henry Prize, a widow in a retirement community glimpses her future while waiting for her daughter to visit from America. In “Malliga Homes,” selected by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for an O. 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. 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.
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