Indria Ganesan, Author, Indira Ganesan, Author Knopf Publishing Group $18.95 (171p) ISBN 978-0-394-56838-6
This promising though uneven first novel maps the voyage--actual and spiritual--of shy Renu Krishnan, 19, from America to her birthplace, the fictitious island of Pi (for Prospero's Island) off India's coast. With her mother and sister, Renu returns
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Indira Ganesan, Author Beacon Press (MA) $13 (176p) ISBN 978-0-8070-8353-6
In a nation of immigrants, the story of arrival and adjustment is a perennial fictional favorite. Fewer writers address going home again, but Ganesan's delicately constructed first novel originally published 11 years ago by Knopf and now out of ...
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Indira Ganesan, Author Alfred A. Knopf $22 (208p) ISBN 978-0-679-43442-9
Set on a tiny island off India's southern tip, this lyrical novel is narrated by 15-year-old Sonil, whose coming-of-age is complicated by family secrets. Sonil's emotions are always at fever-pitch, dominated by anger and bitterness toward her mother,
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Indira Ganesan. Knopf, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-307-96044-3
In her third novel (after Inheritance), Ganesan returns to the island of Pi in the Indian Ocean, "the tiniest crescent-shaped bindi above the eyebrows to Sri Lanka's tear." Mina, now grown, tells the childhood story of her Aunt Meterling's unlikely...
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