Looking for quality, well written, Indian American literature. Anyone have good recommendations?
Slumdog Millionaire/Q&A is unironically good, and it doesn't try to whitewash the reality of life in India.
>>24724246Ka$hmoney "see you in Valhalla" Patel's memoirs on bagging a geuine khazar milkers gf and bumbling his brown ass to the head of the FBI. a icon amongst indian disporia males
>>24724319Is this able to be pre-ordered?
>>24724322Yes, check Amazon for "The Brown Bumbler: The Hero America Needed but didn't Deserve".
>>24724319SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR
the golden gate by Vikram Seth. hes not indian-american but rather Indian who went to college in America and then went back. either way, the golden gate is probably the closest thing I've found to eugene onegin, the verse flows pretty naturally (which is hard to maintain over so many stanzas with a weird rhyme scheme and strict meter), has some fun descriptions and turns of phrase and the bay area yuppies are both loveable and frustrating.
>>24724406she makes him shout that when he's plowing that big Hebrew booty
>>24724246Not a novelist, but check out Ram V.
>>24724438Is it about being an Indian in America?
Why is it that only South Asian women write Diaspora LIT? like rupi where are the MEN FICTION writers besides Salman Rushdie?
>>24725003There's also VS Naipaul but he kicked the bucket a while back.
>>24725003As a group, we overwhelmingly tend towards stemfaggotry. Feels like I'm the only one who seriously engages with classical literature beyond just Marcus Aurelius self-help and old books grifting.
>>24725003>>24725248Read Naulakhi Kothi by Ali Akbar Natiq. He is a contemporary writer/poet from Pakistan.
>>24725248>As a group, we overwhelmingly tend towards stemfaggotryIs it because of monetary pressures where being a bugman coder is what is needed to support the village or some kind of self hatred where the South Asian man in the west just feels like he has nothing to say?
>>24725378I'm sure environmental pressures factor in somewhere, but I like to think that the springs that really move men in the world are those of personal interest. As for the mystery of why minds are drawn to the things they are, I couldn't begin to approach it.
>>24724952no, and there are no indians in the book. it's about 70s or 80s yuppies (almost all white, 1 jap) trying to find love and navigate social expectations and professional ethics. here's a sample:Let me recant. Did I say enter?Indeed, he was already there,The ab initio resenterOf the whole pastel-tinged afairThe grizzled cat, grim and disdainfulOf human weakness, lets his painfulLove of his mistress-heroine(Who saved his life once) shrive her sin;But as for John, the old tom tabbyScratches his proffered hand of truce.No tribute lamb chops can seduceHim from his hate. His coat, grown shabby,Conceals an ever-green-tongued flameOf jealousy time cannot tame.Why scratch a scratching post when trousersPresent themselves? Why bite a bone?Why hunt mere mice like lesser mousersWhen, having gnawed the telephoneReceiver when you sensed the presageOf an impending urgent messageFrom John's curt boss, who can't affordTo waste time, you can short the cord?Why vex yourself with paltry mattersWhen a report named BipartitePara-Models of Missile FlightCan casually be torn to tatters?And why, in short, crave vapid foodWhen you can drink your foe's heart's blood?
>>24725876Stemfaggotry lets you earn like 120k a year in an environment where at worst you'll be stuck at 280 a month
>>24724246Good morning saar
>>24726571I don't like this. Are his novels any better?
>>24725003They write it to attract BWC. Simple as.
>>24726916haven't read anything else by him, just been on a verse novel kick lately.
>>24725003Amitav GhoshVikram Seth
>>24724246Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Interpreter of Maladies" + most of her novels are what you're looking for. But really you're looking for Maladies. Book of stories, her best work
