Three months. That's how long ER nurse Frankie Stapleton has agreed to stay in her sleepy little hometown of Stillwater, helping her estranged sister save the family hardware store, working a few shifts at the local hospital, and most importantly, rebuilding the bridges she burned on her way out of
No One Can Pronounce My Name
โ Scribed by Rakesh Satyal
- Publisher
- Picador
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 238 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1250112117
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
One of Goodreads ' Best Books of the Month (May 2017)
One of BuzzFeed 's 31 Incredible New Books You Need to Read This Spring
One of The Millions ' Most Anticipated Books of the Year
A HUMOROUS AND TENDER MULTIGENERATIONAL NOVEL ABOUT IMMIGRANTS AND OUTSIDERS --THOSE TRYING TO FIND THEIR PLACE IN AMERICAN SOCIETY AND WITHIN THEIR OWN FAMILIES
In a suburb outside Cleveland, a community of Indian Americans has settled into lives that straddle the divide between Eastern and Western cultures. For some, America is a bewildering and alienating place where coworkers can't pronounce your name but will eagerly repeat the Sanskrit phrases from their yoga class. Harit, a lonely Indian immigrant in his mid forties, lives with his mother who can no longer function after the death of Harit's sister, Swati. In a misguided attempt to keep both himself and his mother sane, Harit has taken to dressing up in a sari every...
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