A great country : a novel / Shilpi Somaya Gowda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gowda, Shilpi Somaya, Author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--Fiction.

Families.

Immigrant families--Fiction.

Immigrant families.

Americanization--Fiction.

Americanization.

Conflict of generations--Fiction.

Conflict of generations.

Social classes--Fiction.

Social classes.

East Indian Americans--Fiction.

East Indian Americans.

Police brutality--Fiction.

Police brutality.

Genre:

Domestic fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

246 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Mariner Books, [2024]

Summary:

"Pacific Hills, California: Gated communities, ocean views, well-tended lawns, serene pools, and now the new home of the Shah family. For the Shah parents, who came to America twenty years earlier with little more than an education and their new marriage, this move represents the culmination of years of hard work and dreaming. For their children, born and raised in America, success is not so simple. For the most part, these differences among the five members of the Shah family are minor irritants, arguments between parents and children, older and younger siblings. But one Saturday night, the twelve-year-old son is arrested. The fallout from that event will shake each family member's perception of themselves as individuals, as community members, as Americans, and will lead each to consider: how do we define success? At what cost comes ambition? And what is our role and responsibility in the cultural mosaic of modern America?"-- Provided by publisher.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9780063324343

0063324342

OCLC:

1426045792