These Americans
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Published by Minerva Rising Press 2021-05-03, 2021
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- Title
- These Americans
- Author
- Jyotsna Sreenivasan
- Publisher
- Minerva Rising Press 2021-05-03
- Publication year
- 2021
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1950811069
- ISBN 13
- 9781950811069
Read excerpts at Second Generation Stories. WINNER OF A BRONZE AWARD, MULTICULTURAL CATEGORY, IN THE FOREWORD REVIEWS INDIES CONTEST. THESE AMERICANS, a debut collection of short fiction, explores what it means to live between Indian culture and American expectations. An Indian-born immigrant mother gives birth to her daughter in a small Ohio town. A girl recently returned from India strives to become "American" again. A naïve immigrant mother is in denial about her lawyer daughter's lesbianism. An elderly doctor keeps a shocking secret from her daughter. This engaging collection of eight short stories and a novella will stay with you long after you turn the last page.
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About the Author
Jyotsna Sreenivasan was born and raised in Ohio. Her parents are immigrants from India. She is also the author of the novel And Laughter Fell From the Sky. Her short stories have been published in literary magazines and anthologies. She was a finalist for the 2014 PEN Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, and received an Artist Fellowship Grant from the Washington, DC Commission on the Arts. These Americans is her first short story collection. For information about Jyotsna as well as other writers who are children of immigrants, please see SecondGenStories.com.
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