"[T]his luminous debut…captures precisely the heartache of growing up."
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"A powerful story…a universal look at the complexity of how people wrestle with guilt and blame amid tragic loss."
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"A son of Hindu immigrants from India grows up in a New England suburb, where he struggles to find his way after his mother dies, while his father becomes immersed in anti-Muslim fundamentalism."
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" is an affecting tale of a family's loss, a child's grief, and the search for solace in all the wrong places. Hirsh Sawhney is an incandescent voice in fiction."
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"It's no secret that grief makes us vulnerable, but Hirsh Sawhney's perceptively rendered presents a volatile mix of second-generation migration, sadness, and cruelty in suburban America. is bold, accessible, funny, and heartbreaking."
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"Hirsh Sawhney writes with wit and tenderness about a harsh childhood. And such is his power of insight that this novel, set in a New England suburb, manages to illuminate a larger landscape of cruelty and torment."
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"Hirsh Sawhney has produced an intelligent and beautiful novel. It is about America and India, fathers and children, families and loss. The world is changing and here is a new map of belonging."
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"A lyrical yet disturbing look at the grim realities of migration and American suburban life, manages to be both witty and unnerving at the same time. It is a novel that resonates long in the memory."
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Siddharth Arora lives an ordinary life in the New England suburb of South Haven, but his childhood comes to a grinding halt when his mother dies in a car accident. Siddharth soon gravitates toward a group of adolescent bullies, drinking and smoking instead of drawing and swimming. He takes great pains to care for his depressive father, Mohan Lal, an immigrant who finds solace in the hateful Hindu fundamentalism of his homeland and cheers on Indian fanatics who murder innocent Muslims. When a new woman enters their lives, Siddharth and his father have a chance at a fresh start. They form a new family, hoping to leave their pain behind them.
South Haven
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