"A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home"--

Vikram, a successful first-generation Indian immigrant, invites three of his college friends to his son's graduation from MIT--an event where real life collides with unmet expectations.

"A dazzling debut novel about a Russian immigrant family living in Brooklyn and their struggle to learn the new rules of the American Dream. In this account of two decades in the life of an immigrant household, the fall of communism and the rise of globalization are artfully reflected in the experience of a single family. Ironies, subtle and glaring, are revealed: the Nasmertovs left Odessa for Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, with a huge sense of finality,...

"El sonido de la vida es un emocionante viaje que comienza en Hanover en 1904 y termina en Beatrice, Misuri, en la actualidad. El narrador es James, el nieto de Frederick y Jette, una pareja que se enamora a pesar de la oposición de todos. La única alternativa que les queda es huir de su Alemania natal a Estados Unidos, la tierra de las oportunidades a comienzos del siglo XX. El destino los lleva hasta esa pequeña ciudad de Misuri, donde deciden...