Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. Worried that her husband has begun an affair, she seeks solace by writing paranormal romances in secret. No One Can Pronounce My Name: A Novel is written by Rakesh Satyal and published by Picador. Meanwhile, Ranjana, also an Indian immigrant in her mid-forties, has just seen her only child, Prashant, off to college. Rakesh Satyal, No One Can Pronounce My Name 1 likes Like If you had the capacity to shove love into a princess or fury into a winged monster, you had the capacity to generate passion or mirth or humility or patience in yourself. In a misguided attempt to keep both himself and his mother sane, Harit has taken to dressing up in a sari every night to pass himself off as his sister. Harit, a lonely Indian immigrant in his mid-forties, lives with his mother who can no longer function after the death of Harit's sister, Swati. No One Can Pronounce My Name A Novel By: Rakesh Satyal Narrated by: Amol Shah Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins 4.1 (126 ratings) Try for 0. Rakesh Satyal is the author of the novel Blue Boy, which won a Lambda Literary Award and the Prose/Poetry Award from the Association for Asian. For some, America is a bewildering and alienating place where coworkers can't pronounce your name but will eagerly repeat the Sanskrit phrases from their yoga class. No One Can Pronounce My Name is an insightful look into the lives of immigrants and outsiders, who must reconcile the strictures of their culture and traditions with their own dreams and desires. Summary: "In a suburb outside Cleveland, a community of Indian Americans has settled into lives that straddle the divide between Eastern and Western cultures.
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