About the Book: The Americans
What does it means to live in a place where it is difficult to truly belong for
reasons of race, culture, citizenship status or the political climate, and what
does this do to you?
Tara, single, Indian, mid-thirties, travelling from Madras (Chennai) to the US
at her sisters behest, is the linking character in a novel with ten others, each
telling their own story, set in different American cities, in 2005. Based mostly
in the Indian-American community, the stories explore what it means to be in
America, what it means to be American, with the novels title referring to the
sometimes