SEEKING HOME – FICTION

RACHEL KHONG’s Real Americans: A Novel spans generations of one family, from early 2000s New York City, where young and broke Lily Chen falls for dashing Matthew, to 2021, when 15-year-old Nick Chen searches for his biological father, a journey that produces more questions than answers. In DINAW MENGESTU’s Someone Like Us: A Novel, after abandoning his once-promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush found love and created a family with Hannah, a photographer. Five years later his marriage is collapsing, and Mamush returns to the Ethiopian community of his childhood in Washington, D.C., searching for answers to questions he was told never to ask. And in NAYANTARA ROY’s The Magnificent Ruins: A Novel, a woman returns to India from New York after inheriting her ancestral home, forced to confront her culture, estranged mother, and family all living under the same roof. When their violent past resurfaces, she must finally reckon with her inherited custom of sweeping everything under the rug to preserve appearances.

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