Fake Lives
Fake Lives
Description
When Naina Mathur loses her husband, McMansion, passport, and name within a matter of weeks, she must stake her survival on unlikely alliances with a black man and an illegal alien, both "outsiders" in Trump's America.
Naina Sharma is a comfortably smug, Indian American doctors wife, whose life unravels after her husband suddenly mysteriously disappears. Wary of her next-door neighbor, Tobin Harvey, Naina nevertheless forms a bond with him despite her culturally ingrained racism, and as a result, the local Indian American model minority community the desis shuns her.
Nainas situation worsens when she discovers that her seemingly perfect husband had a frightening past and that she will be facing deportation by the Department of Homeland Security. Her suspicion that something sinister lies behind her husbands disappearance deepens. Grief, fear, and disorientation consume her.
When Nainas worst fears come true and ICE arrests and detains her, she meets Rani Yadav, a working-class, uneducated, single Indian woman, also ostracized by Nainas affluent social circle. Together, they endure ordeal after ordeal until they are helped by an unlikely friend.
Determined to seek justice at every step of her way, Naina cannot avoid confronting her new realities, deciding whether to run from them or face them head on.
Naina Sharma is a comfortably smug, Indian American doctors wife, whose life unravels after her husband suddenly mysteriously disappears. Wary of her next-door neighbor, Tobin Harvey, Naina nevertheless forms a bond with him despite her culturally ingrained racism, and as a result, the local Indian American model minority community the desis shuns her.
Nainas situation worsens when she discovers that her seemingly perfect husband had a frightening past and that she will be facing deportation by the Department of Homeland Security. Her suspicion that something sinister lies behind her husbands disappearance deepens. Grief, fear, and disorientation consume her.
When Nainas worst fears come true and ICE arrests and detains her, she meets Rani Yadav, a working-class, uneducated, single Indian woman, also ostracized by Nainas affluent social circle. Together, they endure ordeal after ordeal until they are helped by an unlikely friend.
Determined to seek justice at every step of her way, Naina cannot avoid confronting her new realities, deciding whether to run from them or face them head on.
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ISBN
9781806951741
Publishers
Roundfire Books
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