G1096 Book Review of From an-other land by Tanushree Ghosh

General Information:

Name of Book: From An-Other Land; Making Home in the Land of Dreams

ISBN: 9789385854736

Publisher: Readomania

Year it was published: 2018

Summary:

Given The chance, would you be ready to immigrate.A majority would probably answer ‘Yes’. Yet, immigrants are looked at with either contempt or segregation and rarely compassion, in their motherland and abroad. Post The 2016 US elections, The rhetoric is further reverberating. From cancellation of refugee protection, zero tolerance and undercurrent crackdown on H visas to racism, profiling and discrimination—the resurgence of nationalism is hitting The globalised population head-on.But what is immigration today. A question of life or death. A fleeing of persecution. A compulsion. Or a mere pursuance of privilege. And, what is USA today, especially for Indians.From An-Other Land is a reality check and an emotional guide for anyone who wants to understand modern-day immigration to USA.

Author: Tanushree Ghosh

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Meet the Author:

Tanushree Ghosh works in Tech and has a Doctorate in Chemistry from the Cornell University. She is also a social activist and writer. Her blog posts, op-eds, poems, and stories are in effort to provoke thoughts, especially towards issues concerning women and social justice.

She is a contributor (past and present) to several popular e-zines (incl. The Huffington Post US, The Logical Indian, Youth Ki Awaaz, Tribune India, Women’s Web, and Cafe Dissensus). Her literary resume includes poems and stories featured in national and international magazines (Words Pauses and Noises, UK; TUCK, Glimmer Train Honorable mention) as well as inclusion in seven anthologies such as Defiant Dreams (Oprah 2016 reading list placeholder) and The Best Asian Short Stories 2017 (published out of Singapore by Kitaab). Her first single author book, From An-Other Land is on immigration.

She has held different leadership roles in non-profits (ASHA and AID India) and is the founder and director of Her Rights (www.herrights.website), a 501(3) c non-profit committed to furthering the cause of gender equality. She is often an invited speaker or panelist for both corporate and non-profit endeavors.

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Collection of Stories: 

1. The Line (Introduces the characters that will populate the next 15 tales. Takes place in 2004)
2. Meera (Tale about Meera and what she had done for her husband and what prompted her to choose the path she did)
3.Tarun and Michelle (Tale about Tarun and his attempt at dating an American woman as well as misunderstandings between them)
4. Raji and the House (Raji trying to get help for her failing marriage)
5. The Biswas Family (About a mysterious case and trying to find a missing father-in-law)
6. Purple Days (Tale about Ira and her observations on her own life)
7. Ambition (Tale about Asti and her attempts to start writing.)
8. 48 Hours @ Tech Next (Tale about Ramesh and how people are often frightened of getting to know one another)
9. A Happy Marriage (Tale about Hema and how she met a woman who encouraged her to date others despite her marriage)
10. The Chinese Lady and Sree (Tale about Sree and how she tends to look down on people who don't belong to her prestigious pilates club)
11. All Lives Matter (Tale about Mahmoud and his attempts to befriend an African-American woman Lisa who recently has undergone tragedy.)
12. Badrinath's Bride (Tale about Badrinath and his attempts at understanding and dating a man back from home.)
13. Under the Seventh Tree (Tale about Ash/Mani who dares to make an ultimate sacrifice for comfort)
14. A Tale of Two Cities (Tale about Shelly and the choices she makes in whether or not to answer a call in distress)
15. The Haboob (This takes place in 2018 and provides updates on the above characters)

Opinion:

FROM AN-OTHER LAND by Tanushree Ghosh are a small collection of short tales of what happens within an immigrant community once the fitting in stage completes. These short tales examine a small kaleidoscope of Indian (From South Asia) community and its members; it both educates and questions what immigration means to the members belonging to it, and what is more to it. I found them both interesting and insightful, because quite often when there are immigration tales, they focus on coming over to America, on the differences between a native country and America, but oh so rarely they focus on the aftermath, on how these experiences shaped men and women, which FROM AN-OTHER LAND does. What I would have liked is to see years pasted on the stories after the first one, because I wasn't able to understand how much time has passed.

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4 out of 5
(0: Stay away unless a masochist 1: Good for insomnia 2: Horrible but readable; 3: Readable and quickly forgettable, 4: Good, enjoyable 5: Buy it, keep it and never let it go.)