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Meow means mischief
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Ann Whitehead Nagda |
A stray kitten turns out to be the perfect way to help Rana make friends in her new school and to feel more comfortable with her grandparents, who are visiting from India while her parents are away. |
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Hot, hot roti for Dada-ji
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F. Zia |
Aneel and his grandfather, Dada-ji, tell stories, use their imaginations, and make delicious roti, a traditional Indian flatbread. |
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The Latte Rebellion
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Sarah Jamila Stevenson |
When high school senior Asha Jamison is called a "towel head" at a pool party, she and her best friend Carey start a club to raise awareness of mixed-race students that soon sweeps the country, but t… |
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The grand plan to fix everything
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Uma Krishnaswami |
Eleven-year-old Dini loves movies, and so when she learns that her family is moving to India for two years, her devastation over leaving her best friend in Maryland is tempered by the possibility of … |
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Jasmine
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Bharati Mukherjee |
After the assassination of her husband, Jasmine leaves India to live with a middle-aged banker in a small Iowa town, only to retain some of the traditions and memories of her past. |
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Quarantine
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Rahul Mehta |
With buoyant humor and incisive, cunning prose, Mehta sets off into uncharted literary territory. The characters in *Quarantine* are Westernized in some ways, with cosmopolitan views on friendship an… |
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Good Indian girls
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Ranbir Singh Sidhu |
Presents a collection of twelve short stories about the complicated lives of Indian immigrants in the United States. |
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Love, hate & other filters
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Samira Ahmed |
Maya Aziz, seventeen, is caught between her India-born parents world of college and marrying a suitable Muslim boy and her dream world of film school and dating her classmate, Phil, when a terrorist … |
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Chachaji's cup
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Uma Krishnaswami |
A boy learns about his family history and the Partition of India from his great uncle, through stories told over a beloved old teacup. |
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Sona and the wedding game
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Kashmira Sheth |
Sona's big sister is getting married and she's been given an important job to do. She has to steal the groom's shoes. She's never attended a wedding before, so she's unfamiliar with this Indian tradi… |
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El Buen Nombre (Lingua Franca)
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Jhumpa Lahiri |
Gogol is named after his father's favourite author. But growing up in an Indian family in suburban America, the boy starts to hate the awkward name and itches to cast it off, along with the inherited… |
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Interpreter of maladies
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Jhumpa Lahiri |
Oorspr. titel: Interpreter of maladies. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin.
Verhalen over Indiase emigranten in de Verenigde Staten. |
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Deep Singh blue
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Ranbir Singh Sidhu |
"Deep Singh wants out--out of his family, out of his city, and more than anything, out of his life. His parents argue over everything and his brother, who hasn't said a single word in over a year, su… |
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A gift for Gita
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Rachna Gilmore |
During a visit from her beloved grandmother, Gita realizes that her memories of India have faded and that America is her true home. |
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Lights for Gita
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Rachna Gilmore |
Recently immigrated from India, Gita is looking forward to celebrating her favorite holiday, Divali, a festival of lights, but things are so different in her new home that she wonders if she will eve… |
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Elephant dance
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Theresa Heine |
Grandfather tells many stories about his native India in answer to Ravi and Anjali's questions, such as the tale of a procession of elephants on the feast of Divaali when he was a boy. Includes facts… |
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Asian Indian Americans
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Carolyn P. Yoder |
An overview of the history and daily lives of people from India who immigrated to the United States. |
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Born confused
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Tanuja Desai Hidier |
Seventeen-year-old Dimple, whose family is from India, discovers that she is not Indian enough for the Indians and not American enough for the Americans, as she sees her hypnotically beautiful, manip… |
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Rani and the wedding ghost
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Tea Emesse |
Rani Sen helps her cousin prepare for her wedding, solves a ghost mystery, and learns about growing up. |
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Ode to Lata
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Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla |
"Banker by day, and denizen of Los Angeles' clubs by night, the protagonist of Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla's first novel is navigating between more than just a day job and an active social life. In Ode to L… |
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