​​​​My book We Are Not These Bodies: On Fathers, Sons, and Indian American Belonging is coming out in 2027 from the University of North Carolina Press.  Pre-order your copy here from Bookshop.org.

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Growing up in small-town Oklahoma, I resented how my Indian heritage set me apart. It was only years later, searching for a sense of home, that I would start to question all I had assumed about what my immigrant parents had taught me. Inspired by the circular Hindu ritual of the aarti, this memoir in essays chronicles my attempt to return to my cultural inheritance on my own terms.​

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“Can an individual life be an offering? What begins as an origin myth becomes an act of discovery, in which the search for meaning becomes inseparable from the mystery it tries to define. Astonishing.”—Paul Lisicky, author of Song So Wild and Blue

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“Fascinating, complex, and nuanced, We Are Not These Bodies shatters stereotypes of Indian Americans.”—Sejal Shah, author of How to Make Your Mother Cry: Fictions

 

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