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Jun 17, 2024 | 
bibliosurf.com | Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Partis de Bombay très jeunes, ils croyaient avoir réalisé leur rêve américain : bonnes études dans des universités réputées, brillantes carrières, trois enfants nés aux États-Unis, belle maison dans un « bon quartier » en Californie du Sud ... Et puis un jour, l’incident, le grain de sable qui fait tout déraper. Une bêtise, plutôt une imprudence de leur fils de douze ans. Et Ashok et Priya redeviennent des étrangers, des suspects. La police intervient.
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Jun 1, 2024 | 
khabar.com | Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Home > Magazine > Desi World > Briefs/ Report on Asian & South Asian Americans/ Looking Back on Immigration Laws/ Book Matters. Compiled/ Written by Murali Kamma WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, & WHY
Nikki Haley, a former UN envoy and South Carolina governor, has joined the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C. As the Walter P. Stern Chair, she will be involved in shaping Hudson’s foreign and domestic policy initiatives. Haley won Hudson’s Global Leadership Award in 2018.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Shilpi Somaya Gowda
When a novel is written from rotating perspectives within a family, it creates a richness and depth in the narrative. As readers, we can see how different people in the same household interpret the same events, which illustrates both how subjective all our perspectives are and how misunderstandings can transpire. How do two children with the same parents and upbringing see their childhoods so differently? Why does a married couple fight over the things they do?
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
kpbs.org | Shilpi Somaya Gowda |Jade Hindmon |Jade worked |SC. As part
Immigration, class tensions and generational conflict all come together in the new book, "A Great Country," by local author Shilpi Somaya Gowda. Shilpi Somaya Gowda: "A Great Country" eventsLiterary Luncheon: 12 p.m. Friday, March 29Himalayan Grill, 9842 Hibert St., Scripps Ranch$48-$68. Tickets required. Carlsbad Library event: 2 p.m. Saturday, March 301775 Dove Ln., Carlsbad. Free.
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Mar 15, 2024 | 
book2look.com | Shilpi Somaya Gowda
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Parul Kapur |Shilpi Somaya Gowda |Rachel Lyon |Jonathan Buckley
Hari Kunzru. Knopf, $28 (272p) ISBN 978-0-593-80137-6Kunzru (Red Pill) takes on the excessive and rapacious tendencies of the art world in his dazzling latest. Jay, a 40-something undocumented performance artist from India, left behind the competitive milieu of his London art school after becoming disillusioned, and has supported himself with various manual labor jobs. Now, during the first summer of the Covid-19 pandemic, he lives in his car and delivers groceries in Upstate New York.
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Jan 21, 2024 | 
keysweekly.com | Rachel Hawkins |Shilpi Somaya Gowda |Rebecca Serle
The HeiressBy Rachel HawkinsMost people haven’t heard of the tiny town of Tavistock, North Carolina. But if you were from these parts, you most certainly knew the McTavish family. When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore passes away, her long-lost son Camden returns, after a decade of living his life withdrawn from the family drama. Ruby was North Carolina’s richest woman. She was famous for being kidnapped as a child and later was mysteriously widowed four times.
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Jan 21, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Parul Kapur |Shilpi Somaya Gowda |Rachel Lyon |Jonathan Buckley
Marissa Higgins. Catapult, $27 (256p) ISBN 978-1-64622-197-4In Higgins’s striking and visceral debut, a 30-something woman copes with her childhood trauma by nursing a cough syrup addiction and fostering a masochistic relationship with a lesbian couple. Boston attorney Helen pursues serious Catherine and sensitive Katherine, a married couple she met online, hoping for love and acceptance and for them to “mother me meanly.” Woven into the narrative are shards of Helen’s fractured family history.
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Jan 18, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Parul Kapur |Shilpi Somaya Gowda |Rachel Lyon |Jonathan Buckley
W. Joseph Campbell. Univ. of California, $27.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-520-39778-1Campbell (Getting It Wrong), a professor of communication at American University, offers a lively tour through past polling failures of American presidential elections, updated since its original 2020 publication with a new chapter on the that year’s election, which was polling’s worst performance in 40 years.
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Jan 16, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Parul Kapur |Shilpi Somaya Gowda |Rachel Lyon |Jonathan Buckley
Andrew Boryga. Doubleday, $27 (288) ISBN 978-0-385-54997-4Part blistering satire, part earnest bildungsroman, Boryga’s canny debut follows an aspiring Puerto Rican writer from the Bronx. While Javi focuses on high school, his best friend Gio joins a gang and is sent to prison on a drug trafficking conviction.
