Blurbs for the novel

Accolades from leading writers
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** "In this charming first novel, Karan Puri describes the exhilaration, alienation and transformation
of a young man gone off to a strange land in pursuit of a dream. And what land could be stranger than
21st century America? Or a better place to find a dream -- and find oneself? Made me wish I were young again."

-- Donald (Don) Morrison, author of "The Death of French Culture" and Former Managing Editor, TIME (International) **


** "A guileless and wide-eyed description of one young Indian student's passage to America"

-- Anthony Spaeth, author of "The Thousand-Headed Snake" & "May and June" and Foreign Correspondent **


** "This is an honest, warm telling of the dilemmas of college life in America and trying to resist but ultimately
succumbing to the need to be nearer to one's roots. Everyone who has contemplated living abroad will relate to it."

-- Rahul Jacob, author of "Right of Passage: Travels from Brooklyn to Bali" **