Seeking Fortune Elsewhere

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Seeking Fortune Elsewhere
Sindya Bhanoo
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Hardback
h210 x 140mm - 240pg
8 Mar 2022 US
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9781646220878
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This stunning debut collection from O. Henry Prize winner Sindya Bhanoo offers intimate stories of South Indian immigrants and the families they left behind, centering women' s lives and asking how women both claim and surrender power. Traveling from Pittsburgh to Eastern Washington to Tamil Nadu, these astonishing stories about dislocation and dissonance see immigrants and their families confront the costs of leaving and staying, identifying sublime symmetries in lives growing apart. In "Malliga Homes," selected by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for an O. Henry Prize, a widow in a retirement community glimpses her future while waiting for her daughter to visit from America. In "No. 16 Model House Road," a woman long subordinate to her husband makes a choice of her own after she inherits a house. In "Nature Exchange," a mother grieving in the wake of a school shooting finds an unusual obsession. In "A Life in America," a professor finds himself accused of having exploited his graduate students. Sindya Bhanoo' s haunting stories show us how immigrants' paths, and the paths of those they leave behind, are never simple. Bhanoo takes us along on their complicated journeys where regret, hope, and triumph appear in disguise.
"Exquisite . . . Bhanoo' s piercing stories further augment the growing shelves of spectacular first short story collections by women of color. " -Booklist (starred review) "Stunning . . . Bhanoo transforms human drama into mystery. Graceful stories by a writer with enormous empathy for even the most flawed and forlorn among us. " -Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Stunning . . . Bhanoo finds novel ways for her protagonists to cope with adversity . . . This introduces a great new talent. " -Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Seeking Fortune Elsewhere is a rare and breathtaking achievement, a collection of stories so original, so richly imagined and powerfully rendered, that it seems timeless. Each story is a multi-faceted jewel, refracting love and loss, casting a new and profound light on the shadows of the human heart. With her boundless talent, fierce intellect, and abiding curiosity about the souls of her characters, Sindya Bhanoo arrives as one of the most important writers of her generation. " -Bret Anthony Johnston, author of Remember Me Like This "This achingly beautiful collection charts the emotional journeys and complicated ties of those who choose to leave and those who are left behind. You will ache for the women at the center of these powerful stories. You will cry for their losses and celebrate their tiny victories. Bhanoo' s stories affirm humanity as only good literature can achieve. A magnificent debut of a writer you will read for years to come. " -Lara Prescott, author of The Secrets We Kept "I am still in the grip of this gorgeous collection. How thrilling to see women I know in these pages, tender and fierce, yearning for freedom yet plagued by the past. Each character has carved a precise space in my mind. Every one of these stories glows with truth. " -Tania James, author of The Tusk That Did the Damage "What a beautiful book Seeking Fortune Elsewhere is-stories about home, love, heartache, and betrayal, about the moral complexity of human love in all its varieties. Sindya Bhanoo describes her characters with an astonishing mixture of mercy and mercilessness, which is to say they live and breathe and will break your heart and stun you. Indeed, the whole book is stunning, and the good news is it' s only her first. " -Elizabeth McCracken, author of The Souvenir Museum "With wise, honest precision and compassionate grace, Sindya Bhanoo masterfully locates the tender sources of human longing. Seeking Fortune Elsewhere is a stunning collection by an extraordinary talent. " -Jill McCorkle, author of Hieroglyphics
Sindya Bhanoo' s fiction has appeared in Granta, New England Review, Glimmer Train, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of an O. Henry Award, the Disquiet Literary Prize and scholarships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee writers conferences. A longtime newspaper reporter, she has worked for The New York Times and The Washington Post. She is a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers, UC Berkeley' s Graduate School of Journalism and Carnegie Mellon University. She lives in Austin, TX.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781646220878
Published: 8 Mar 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Catapult
Publisher: Catapult
Format: Hardback
Height: 210mm
Width: 140mm
Pages: 240

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