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SUMMARY:The Best Possible Experience: Stories by Nishanth Injam
LOCATION:Kent Ale House
DESCRIPTION:Saved in Palaner as: saved\n\nPalaner match: 29% · why: lots of
  people going\n\nThis time we're reading The Best Possible Experience: Sto
 ries by Nishanth Injam (224 pgs). Hope to see you then!\n\nAbout the book:
 \n\nVivid\, vibrant\, and unwaveringly affecting\, The Best Possible Exper
 ience brings us intimate\, impeccably realized accounts of individuals liv
 ing in one of the most populous countries in the world and in its American
  diaspora—all haunted\, in every sense of the word\, by a loss of home. Cl
 assically elegant in prose and consistently modern in outlook\, Nishanth I
 njam’s stories ques­tion what it means to have a home and to return home\,
  and show\, above all\, that home is not a place so much as it is people w
 ho are ready to accept you as you are. We see a young man trapped on a bus
  on the way to visit his parents as his fellow pas­sengers vanish into the
  restroom. A family\, newly in America\, determined to host a perfect lunc
 heon for their son’s white classmate—with no idea what to serve him. A wom
 an who returns to a small vil­lage in India every summer to visit the gran
 dfather who raised her\, a man who lives with the ghosts of his son and hi
 s wife. And a man preparing for his green card interview with the American
  woman he has paid to marry him. A sui generis talent\, Injam first starte
 d writing after coming to the United States from India in his twenties. Th
 e Best Possible Experience\, his profoundly personal debut collection\, de
 livers a universal in­quiry into the idea of belonging and preserves in wr
 iting the home he left behind\, before it was lost.\n\nBecause Meetup char
 ges organizers like me $389.76 annually\, there is a $1 suggested donation
 . If you'd like to contribute\, you can do so at the meetup or by venmo (I
 'll post the info afterwards).
URL:https://www.meetup.com/williamsburg-book-club/events/315517708/
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