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020 $a9781250183194 (hbk.) :$cNT$875
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050 00$aPS3616.A86648$bA6 2018
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100 1 $aPatel, Neel.
245 10$aIf you see me, don't say hi /$cNeel Patel.
246 3 $aIf you see me, do not say hi.
250 $aFirst edition.
260 $aNew York :$bFlatiron Books,$c2018.
300 $a208 p. ;$c22 cm.
505 0 $agod of destruction -- hare rama, hare krishna -- hey, loser -- just a friend -- if you see me, don't say hi -- the taj mahal -- the other language -- these things happen -- an arrangement --world famous -- radha, krishna.
520 $aIn eleven sharp, surprising stories, Neel Patel gives voice to our most deeply held stereotypes and then slowly undermines them. His characters, almost all of who are first-generation Indian Americans, subvert our expectations that they will sit quietly by. We meet two brothers caught in an elaborate web of envy and loathing; a young gay man who becomes involved with an older man whose secret he could never guess; three women who almost gleefully throw off the pleasant agreeability society asks of them; and, in the final pair of linked stories, a young couple struggling against the devastating force of community gossip.
546 $aText in English.
650 0$aEast Indian Americans$vFiction.