The Red Carpet
by Lavanya Sankaran | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 9780385338172 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 9780385338172 Global Overview for this book
Registered by eponine38 of Winchester, Massachusetts USA on 8/7/2021
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Wry humor and a delicious grasp of the friction between generations in Bangalore are the hallmarks of Lavanya Sankaran’s fresh, deeply nuanced debut collection. “A potpourri of beggars and billionaires and determinedly laid-back ways,” Bangalore, India’s own Silicon Valley, is a crucible for prosperity, and at the chaotic crossroads between past and present. Here, American-trained professionals like Tara return to their old-fashioned families with heads full of Quentin Tarantino dialogue; a successful entrepreneur is shaken when his partner suddenly reneges on their plan to return to America; a traditional Indian mother slyly circumvents her Western-educated daughter’s resistance to marriage; a neighborhood gossip is determined to discover what goes on behind the closed curtains of the hip young couple across the street; a chauffeur must reconcile his more orthodox credos with his employer’s miniskirt lifestyle.
Witty, affectionate, and wonderfully wise, Lavanya Sankaran’s first collection attests to her remarkable literary talent.
Wry humor and a delicious grasp of the friction between generations in Bangalore are the hallmarks of Lavanya Sankaran’s fresh, deeply nuanced debut collection. “A potpourri of beggars and billionaires and determinedly laid-back ways,” Bangalore, India’s own Silicon Valley, is a crucible for prosperity, and at the chaotic crossroads between past and present. Here, American-trained professionals like Tara return to their old-fashioned families with heads full of Quentin Tarantino dialogue; a successful entrepreneur is shaken when his partner suddenly reneges on their plan to return to America; a traditional Indian mother slyly circumvents her Western-educated daughter’s resistance to marriage; a neighborhood gossip is determined to discover what goes on behind the closed curtains of the hip young couple across the street; a chauffeur must reconcile his more orthodox credos with his employer’s miniskirt lifestyle.
Witty, affectionate, and wonderfully wise, Lavanya Sankaran’s first collection attests to her remarkable literary talent.
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Looks fascinating! Will read and /or include in Asian Diaspora VBB.
Journal Entry 4 by haahaahaa98 at Asian Diaspora Virtual Book Box, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases on Monday, August 23, 2021
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Released into the Asian Diaspora Virtual Book box Round 2. Enjoy!
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For sweepstakes. Congrats!
This just arrived; thank you! It sounds very interesting.
Journal Entry 7 by emmejo at Little Free Library #86379 in Virgil, New York USA on Thursday, June 9, 2022
Released 1 yr ago (6/8/2022 UTC) at Little Free Library #86379 in Virgil, New York USA
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Added to the Little Free Library. I was hoping to read this, but it has become urgent that I get my stuff out of the place I am staying. Hopefully it will find a reader in a better place to enjoy it!