{"product_id":"south-to-south-writing-south-asia-in-the-american-south-9781680032963","title":"South to South: Writing South Asia in the American South","description":"This anthology of eight short stories and eight narrative essays depicts diverse facets of the South Asian experience in the American South. Some of them relate to the proverbial longing for what the immigrants have left behind, while the others spotlight the immigrants' struggles to reconcile with realities they did not sign up for. In Chaitali Sen's \"The Immigrant,\" Dhruv is unable to talk about a lost boy because he feels \"as if he were trapping the boy with his story,\" as if the lost boy's story were his own story of getting lost in a foreign country. In Hasanthika Sirisena's \"Pine,\" a Christmas tree becomes more than \"only a pine tree with decorations thrown on it\" when Lakshmi's ex-husband lets her know he is converting to Christianity \"to get ahead in this country.\" Aruni Kashyap's \"Nafisa Ali's Life, Love, and Friendships, Before and after the Travel Ban\" tell a post-2016 immigrant story in which love is baffling. In \"Gettysburg,\" Kirtan Nautiyal asks, how does an immigrant become part of the new country's history? Soniah Kamal's essay \"Writing the Immigrant Southern in the New New South\" reflects on what it means to be an immigrant writer and if one can write from two places at once. Together, the stories and essays in the anthology compose a mosaic of South Asian lived experiences in the American South.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-15786388\"\u003eKhem K. Aryal\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Texas Review Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/21\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 6.20w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781680032963\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1680032968\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LIT\"\u003eLiterary Criticism\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LIT004020\"\u003eAmerican | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LCO\"\u003eLiterary Collections\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LCO004000\"\u003eAsian | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO002020\"\u003eCultural, Ethnic \u0026amp; Regional | Asian \u0026amp; Asian American\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally from Nepal, KHEM K. ARYAL is a writer, editor, and a teacher of writing. His work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Pinch\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIsthmus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePangyrus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWarscapes\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Writing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Kathmandu Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. He is an assistant professor of creative writing at Arkansas State University, where he also serves as creative materials editor of \u003ci\u003eArkansas Review\u003c\/i\u003e. He has a Ph.D. in English from the University of Missouri. He was a long-time editor of \u003ci\u003eOf Nepalese Clay\u003c\/i\u003e, a literary journal published from Kathmandu.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Texas Review Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44486037864685,"sku":"9781680032963","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_ce938b0e-0653-4d2b-ab95-856e579b835e.jpg?v=1700811831","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/south-to-south-writing-south-asia-in-the-american-south-9781680032963","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}