Sindya Bhanoo

Beautiful stories, Tamil-Indian family life, mostly in US but also in India. Often tinged with sadness and regret but with lots of humanity and forgiveness for human frailty.

Good NYT review within this link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/25/books/review/new-short-story-collections.html

Stories about Indians, mostly in the USA. It's hard to say why I only gave this 3 1/2*. The stories are well-written, the characters real and likeable, the details clear. The stories even have endings. But somehow they don't seem to go anywhere. The one exception is 'No. 16 Model House Road' that has a feminist edge. If you decide to read the book, but then are tempted to give up on it, skip forward to this story.