SECRETS, LIES & THINGS LOST IN TRANSLATION – FICTION

In Deeper than the Ocean: A Novel, Mirta Ojito tells a multigenerational tale that spins out of a chance finding. While on the Canary Islands, Mara Denis learns that her grandmother is among the dead in the shipwreck of the Valbanera, the “poor man’s Titanic.” But that was years before Mara’s mother was born – and suddenly everything Mara thought she knew about her family and herself is now in question. In Shobha Rao‘s Indian Country: A Novel, Janavi and Sagar, newly coupled after a forced arranged marriage in their native India, move to Montana after Sagar accepts an engineering job there. But his white colleagues don’t welcome him, and when one is found drowned, Sagar, the one person of color, becomes the scapegoat. Daniel Tam-Claiborne’s Transplants follows Lin, a Chinese student, and Liz, a Chinese American teacher, who meet at a university campus in rural Qixian. Each faces hostility. Unfolding over the course of a year, in small towns from Dandong to Deadwood, and alternating between Liz and Lin’s perspectives, Transplants is a story of migration, belonging, and the parts of ourselves that get lost in translation.

Buy Deeper than the Ocean: A Novel – Ojito

Buy Indian Country: A Novel – Rao

Buy Transplants – Tam-Claiborne