Members Only - Hardcover

Pandya, Sameer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0358098548 ISBN 13: 9780358098546

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

First the white members of Raj Bhatt’s posh tennis club call him racist. Then his life falls apart. Along the way, he wonders: where does he, a brown man, belong in America?

Raj Bhatt is often unsure of where he belongs. Having moved to America from Bombay as a child, he knew few Indian kids. Now middle-aged, he lives mostly happily in California, with a job at a university.  Still, his white wife seems to fit in better than he does at times, especially at their tennis club, a place he’s cautiously come to love. 

 

But it’s there that, in one week, his life unravels. It begins at a meeting for potential new members: Raj thrills to find an African American couple on the list; he dreams of a more diverse club. But in an effort to connect, he makes a racist joke. The committee turns on him, no matter the years of prejudice he’s put up with.  And worse still, he soon finds his job is in jeopardy after a group of students report him as a reverse racist, thanks to his alleged “anti-Western bias.”

 

Heartfelt, humorous, and hard-hitting, Members Only explores what membership and belonging mean, as Raj navigates the complicated space between black and white America.

 

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SAMEER PANDYA was longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award forhis story collection The Blind Writer, and is the recipient of the PEN/Civitella Fellowship. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Salon, and elsewhere. He teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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• Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0358098548
• ISBN 13: 9780358098546
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
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