Passage West - A Novel

A Recommended Book from Bustle, Book Riot and The Millions A sweeping, vibrant first novel following a family of Indian sharecroppers at the onset of World War I, revealing a little-known part of California history 1914: Ram Singh arrives in the Imperial Valley on the Mexican border, reluctantly accepting his friend Karak's offer of work and partnership in a small cantaloupe farm. Ram is unmoored; fleeing violence in Oregon, he desperately longs to return to his wife and newborn son in Punjab--but he is duty bound to make his fortune first. In the Valley, American settlement is still new and the rules are ever shifting. Alongside Karak; Jivan and his wife, Kishen; and Amarjeet, a U.S. soldier, Ram struggles to farm in the unforgiving desert. When he meets an alluring woman who has fought in Mexico's revolution, he strives to stay true to his wife. The Valley is full of settlers hailing from other cities and different continents. The stakes are high and times are desperate--just one bad harvest or stolen crop could destabilize a family. And as anti- immigrant sentiment rises among white residents, the tensions of life in the west finally boil over. In her ambitious debut novel, Rishi Reddi, award-winning author of Karma and Other Stories , explores an enduring question: Who is welcome in America? Richly imagined and beautifully rendered, Passage West offers a moving portrait of one man's search for home.

Product details

• Authors: Rishi Reddi
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9780060898793
• ISBN: 978-0-06-089879-3
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Historical / General, FICTION: Asian American, FICTION: Romance / Historical / American, LITERATURE: GENERAL FICTION, LITERATURE: HISTORICAL, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Women Authors, LITERATURE: ASIAN & ASIAN-AMERICAN, FICTION: World Literature / Central America