no one can pronounce my name by rakesh satyal

The pretense is stifling, yet it awakens his self-awareness. Harit's sister's recent death is such a loss that every night he dons her sari and assumes her identity to give his mother something to live for. Each of these characters struggle with issues of identity. It revolves around two immigrants: Harit, a middle-aged department store salesman, and Ranjana, the wife of a math professor and mother to an American-born son, Prashant, a freshman at Princeton. Satyal, the Lambda Award-winning author of Blue Boy, writes evocatively of Indian-American culture in his second novel, set in Cleveland. Rakesh Satyal's No One Can Pronounce My Name is a distinctive, funny, and insightful look into the lives of people who must reconcile the strictures of their culture and traditions with their own dreams and desires. When Harit and Ranjana’s paths cross, they begin a strange yet necessary friendship that brings to light their own passions and fears. Worried that her husband has begun an affair, she seeks solace by writing paranormal romances in secret. Meanwhile, Ranjana, also an Indian immigrant in her mid forties, has just seen her only child, Prashant, off to college. 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.

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. In a suburb outside Cleveland, a community of Indian Americans has settled into lives that straddle the divide between Eastern and Western cultures. One of The Millions' Most Anticipated Books of the YearĪ HUMOROUS AND TENDER MULTIGENERATIONAL NOVEL ABOUT IMMIGRANTS AND OUTSIDERS-THOSE TRYING TO FIND THEIR PLACE IN AMERICAN SOCIETY AND WITHIN THEIR OWN FAMILIES One of BuzzFeed’s 31 Incredible New Books You Need to Read This Spring Wesite for the new book by Rakesh Satyal.One of Goodreads’ Best Books of the Month (May 2017) Movingly and believably, Ranjana and Harit find each other, and then, thanks. No One Can Pronounce My Name beautifully explores the challenges of asserting individuality in the face of societal and cultural proscriptions. 'Rakesh Satyal writes with both tender empathy and sly wit, and his characters are vulnerable, admirable, and idiosyncratic.His second novel, No One Can Pronounce My Name, just came out in May from Pica. Rakesh Satyal is an award-winning novelist, book editor, and cabaret singer.

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No one can pronounce my name by rakesh satyal