Amit Majmudar
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A luminous, bittersweet novel of India and the American midwest, immigrants and their first-generation children, and the power of cooking to bridge the gulfs between them
When Mala and Ronak learn that their mother has only a few months to live, they are reluctantly pulled back into the midwestern world of their Indian immigrant parents-a diaspora of prosperous doctors and engineers who have successfully managed to keep faith with the old world while...
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A stunning first novel, set during the violent 1947 partition of India, about uprooted children and their journeys to safety.
As India is rent into two nations, communal violence breaks out on both sides of the new border and streaming hordes of refugees flee from blood and chaos.
At an overrun train station, Shankar and Keshav, twin Hindu boys, lose sight of their mother and join the human mass to go in search of her. A young Sikh girl, Simran...
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Shortly
after learning they would become the parents of twins, the physician-writer
Amit Majmudar and his wife received a devastating in utero diagnosis: one
of the twins had a potentially fatal congenital heart defect.
Written in
the form of an extended letter, Twin A recounts the epic story of the
open-heart surgeries, complications, and prolonged recoveries that Majmudar's
son survived in infancy and early childhood. But the narrative turns...