Rajeev Balasubramanyam. In Beautiful Disguises. To imprisoned as a hostile alien, he decides to move to Bombay Jhumpa Lahiri. escape an arranged marriage, the sixteen-year-old daughter of after the war. Lowland. Spanning the oceans from India to Rhode Island, a middle class South Indian family runs away to Delhi and Diamond Dust: Stories. A collection of stories spans two this is a story of brothers and allegiances, mothers and takes a job as a maid in a household where the other servants continents and explores the line between traditional ties and challenges, families and turmoil. are as strange as her employers. personal freedom. Interpreter of Maladies. In nine stories imbued with the Fasting, Feasting. As Uma, the unmarriageable adult sensual details of Indian culture, Lahiri charts the emotional Sidhwa Bapsi. Cracking India. Lenny, the young girl of an daughter of an Indian lawyer, copes with her parents' demands journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of affluent family of Lahore in 1947, becomes aware of the and traditional Indian family life, her younger brother, Arun, nations and generations. religious differences of people around her when her nanny is faces life with an American family in a Massachusetts suburb. The Namesake. A portrait of the immigrant experience kidnapped. Journey to Ithaca. A novel about Westerners living in India. follows the Ganguli family from their traditional life in India Vikram Chandra. through their arrival in Massachusetts in the late 1960s and Kiran Desai. Love and Longing in Bombay. A civil servant narrates six their difficult melding into an American way of life. Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard. Sampath Chawla, a stories to the patrons of a Bombay bar, tales of ghosts and Unaccustomed Earth. Exploring the secrets and complexities young postal worker who never feels as though he fits into the soldiers, love and hate between families, and corruption in lying at the heart of family life and relationships, a collection small Indian town into which he is born, one day climbs up a present-day India. of eight stories includes the title work, about a young mother tree, only to become a famous holy man. Sacred Games. Receiving an anonymous tip that could lead in a new city whose father tends her garden while hiding a The Inheritance of Loss. In a crumbling house in the remote to the capture of a powerful criminal overlord, Bombay police secret love affair. northeastern Himalayas, an embittered, elderly judge finds his officer Sartaj Singh is nearing his goal when he realizes that peaceful retirement turned upside down by the arrival of his Amulya Malladi. his imminent confrontation with the crime lord is part of a orphaned granddaughter, Sai. The Mango Season. While visiting her family in India, Priya more sinister agenda. plans on announcing her engagement to an American man, but Chitra Divakaruni.(partial list) Amit Chaudhuri. The Immortals. upon her arrival she learns that her parents have selected a Arranged Marriage. A collection of short stories features Trained in the classical idiom but teaching popular modern husband for her. Indian-born women facing change and conflict in their lives in songs to wealthy clients whose lifestyle he covets, voice America. Song of the Cuckoo Bird. Kokila, a young orphan, refuses an teacher Shyam Lal accepts sixteen-year-old Nirmalya as a The Palace of Illusions. Panchaali, wife of the five legendary arranged marriage, a decision that condemns her to a life of student of Indian classical music. Pandavas brothers, offers her own version of the ancient poverty and isolation in which she must fight for a place in a Kavita Daswani. Indian epic, The Mahabharat. society. For Matrimonial Purposes. Unable to find a husband despite Queen of Dreams. Rakhi, a young artist living in Berkeley, Kamala Markandaya. Nectar in a Sieve. This critically the efforts of friends, fortune-tellers, and matchmakers, thirty- California, finds herself caught between the turmoil of life in acclaimed novel tells the story of India and its people through three year old Anju obtains their permission to leave Bombay America in the wake of September 11th and the India of her the eyes of one woman and her experiences in one peasant to look for a husband in the United States. mother. family in a primitive Indian village. Salaam Paris. Yearning for the glittering world of Paris, Sister of My Heart. Two girls, one the daughter of an upper- Tanaya Shah seizes the opportunity for an arranged marriage caste Calcutta family, the other the daughter of the black Pankaj Mishra. The Romantics. In a novel set in both to a man living in the City of Lights, but once she arrives in sheep of that same family, form a sisterly bond that shatters modern-day India and Europe, a young Brahmin intellectual the city, she shuns the match, takes a job as a model, and is when one of the girls discovers a family secret. finds himself caught between two cultures as he seeks to find disowned by her family. Vine of Desire. After a year of living separate lives, Anju and his true identity. The Village Bride of Beverly Hills. After an arranged Sudha are reunited and rekindle their friendship in America, a Rohinton Mistry marriage in India, Priya and her husband move to California, link that helps both women as they establish new relationships Family Matters. In mid-1990s Bombay, Nariman Vakeel where they live with his parents and she is expected to play with their families and with men and women outside the lives in a crumbling apartment with his two middle-aged the traditional role. Indian immigrant community. stepchildren--the mild-mannered Jal and his domineering David Davidar. The House of Blue Mangoes. Set against the Amitav Ghosh. The Hungry Tide. Presents a novel of life in sister, Coomy, who plots to turn over the care of her backdrop of India's struggle for independence, an epic modern India, chronicling the interwoven journey of an stepfather to her younger sister, Roxana. spanning three generations follows Solomon Dorai, the head American marine biologist and a Delhi businessman who A Fine Balance. A portrait of India featuring four characters. of the quaint village of Chevathar, as he makes choices to travel to the remote Sundarban Islands. Two are tailors who are forcibly sterilized, one is a student save his village that will affect the lives of his family for who emigrates, and the fourth is a widowed seamstress who Shilipi Gowda. The Golden Son. generations to come. decides to hang on. After his father dies, an Indian doctor doing his medical Anita Desai. residency in Texas becomes the head of his family's small Bharati Mukherjee. (Partial List) The Artist of Disappearance. This trio of artful novellas on village back home. Desirable Daughters. Chronicles the journeys of three memory, illusion and expectation and is set in India of the Brahmin women as they follow divergent paths from their Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. (partial list) recent past. home in Calcutta to seek new lives for themselves on two A Lovesong for India: Tales from the East and West. Baumgartner’s Bombay. Hugo Baumgartner escapes to separate continents. A collection of short stories that span India, England and New Calcutta with his family during Hitler's rise, and although Miss New India. Although her traditional low middle-class York and include tales of an elderly couple who rent out their family expects her to go through with her arranged marriage, home in Delhi and an overworked Manhattan talent scout. Anjali Bose wants to make more of her life and self. So she Aatish Taseer. The Way Things Were. An absorbing family moves to India's fastest growing city. saga set amid the commotion of the last forty years of Indian The Tree Bride. Struggling to reconcile with her estranged history. husband, Tara Chatterjee relates the story of an East Bengali Thrity Umrigar. ancestor who married a tree at the age of five and who grew The Story Hour. A relationship develops between Maggie, a up to be a nationalist freedom fighter against the British Raj. psychologist, and Lakshmi, a troubled Indian woman. As their Neel Mukherjee. The Lives of Others. stories develop, it is hard to figure out which woman does Contemporary Chronicles the vicissitudes of the extended Ghosh family as more to impact the other’s life. internal rivalries accompany the implosion of the family If Today Be Sweet. A middle-aged widow struggles to business and external social unrest. decide whether she will live in her native India or immigrate to America, where her son and his wife live in suburban Ohio. Anita Nair. Mistress. Traveling to India to interview a Authors of The Space Between Us. Captures the delicate balance of class world-famous musician, Christopher Stewart, a handsome, and gender in contemporary India as witnessed through the young, American scholar, becomes absorbed into the lives of two women--Sera Dubash, an upper middle-class luxurious orbit of Koman and his niece Radha, a beautiful housewife, and Bhima, an illiterate domestic hardened by a young woman unhappily married to a materialistic, ambitious life of loss and despair. India husband. The Weight of Heaven. Having lost their beloved only child Salman Rushdie. (partial list) to a sudden illness, Frank and Ellie Benton hope to rebuild Enchantment of Florence. A traveler from Italy arrives at their lives by accepting a job offer in India. the court of Emperor Akbar, lord of the Mughal empire, and The World We Found. Follows four friends who met as entertains him with a story about Akbar's great aunt, Qara Kz, university students in Bombay in the late 1970s as they the enchantress of Florence: a tale which suggests a larger, struggle to reconnect and reunite at the deathbed of one of secret history interconnecting East and West. their group. Midnight’s Children. The story of Saleem Sinal, born Samrat Upadhyay. precisely at midnight, August 15, 1947, the moment India The Guru of Love. A math teacher and tutor earning a low became independent. Saleem's life parallels the history of his wage and living in a small apartment with his wife and nation. children, Ramchandra becomes involved in an illicit affair The Moor’s Last Sigh. A family saga reflecting the troubled with one of his students, Malati, a beautiful, impoverished state of India. The protagonists are four generations of the da young new mother. Gama, who became wealthy in the spice trade before declining into gangsterism. Their tale is narrated by the family's last descendant.

Arundhati Roy. The God of Small Things. In 1969, in Kerala, India, Rahel and her twin brother, Estha, struggle to forge a childhood for themselves amid the destruction of their family life, as they discover that the entire world can be transformed in a single moment.

Manil Suri. The Age of Shiva. Marrying in order to escape an overbearing father, Meera is further victimized by her physically demanding husband and lustful brother-in-law, a circumstance from which she finds fleeting escape through her relationships with her sister-in-law and young son. The Death of Vishnu. As Vishnu lies dying on the staircase he inhabits, his neighbors argue over who will pay for an ambulance. This story becomes a metaphor for the social and religious divisions of contemporary India. The Ridgefield Library Meera Syal. Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee. A hilarious, no- holds-barred portrait of a close-knit group of Indian women February 2016 living in London.