“Plenty of brown girls divide themselves in two, as I had, but over time, maintaining both selves takes a toll. Away from family, I could pretend that I was not…
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About the Book: In this sparkling and romantic YA debut, a reserved Bangladeshi-American teenager has twenty-eight days to make the biggest decision of her life after agreeing to fake date…
About the Book: Award-winning comedian Zarna Garg turns her astonishing life story into a hilarious memoir—from narrowly escaping an arranged marriage and homelessness in India to carving her own path…
About the Book: First love. First kill. Just another day ending in y when you’re a monster-slayer trained by Hindu demons. Unlike most of her classmates, Laila Bansal doesn’t roll out of…
About the Book: When Geetha and her mom move from India to Rhode Island after her parents’ divorce, they leave everything Geetha loves behind—her family, her friends, her dog, and…
About the Book: It’s been years since Meena has seen her husband, Nikhil . . . years since they first laid eyes on each other back home in Texas, years…
We met at the Bar where an enormous Larry Poons perched above. I saw her enter – a petite, elegant and young woman perfectly at ease. We were at Four…
After an unexpected turn of events upended the homemaker role her parents had planned for her, Manjari Jaruhar overcame extraordinary odds to become the first woman from Bihar to join…
A deeply personal, paradigm-shifting book from therapist, writer, and founder of @browngirltherapy that rethinks traditional therapy and self-care models, creating much-needed space for those left out of the narrative. About…
South Asian American Daughters on Obedience and Rebellion, edited by Piyali Bhattacharya, is the first anthology to examine the multiple facets of daughterhood in South Asian American families. The voices…
