An astonishingly assured debut from an award-winning writer, this emotionally rich portrait captures contemporary India and its diaspora, exploring the concept of home. Vivid and affecting, the collection presents intimate accounts of individuals in one of the world's most populous countries and its American diaspora, all grappling with a sense of lost home. With elegant prose and a modern outlook, the stories question the essence of home and illustrate that it is defined not by place but by the people who accept us as we are. We encounter a young man on a bus to visit his parents, a family in America striving to host a perfect luncheon for their son's white classmate, a woman returning to her village to visit her grandfather, and a man preparing for his Green Card interview with a woman he has paid to marry. Injam, who began writing after moving to America from India in his twenties, offers a profoundly personal collection that delves into belonging and preserves the memory of a home left behind before it was lost forever.
