Mad Country (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781616957964)

Samrat Upadhyay's new collection vibrates at the edges of intersecting cultures. Journalists in Kathmandu are targeted by the government. A Nepali man studying in America drops out of school and finds himself a part of the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri. A white American woman moves to Nepal and changes her name. A Nepali man falls in love with a mysterious foreign black woman. A rich kid is caught up in his own fantasies of poverty and bank robbery. In the title story, a powerful woman, the owner of a construction company, becomes a political prisoner, and in stark and unflinching prose we see both her world and her mind radically remade.

Through the course of the stories in this collection, Upadhyay builds new modes of seeing our interconnected contemporary world. A collection of formal inventiveness, heartbreak and hope, it reaffirms Upadhyay's position as one or our most important chroniclers of globalization and exile.

Author: Samrat Upadhyay
ISBN-10: 1616957964
ISBN-13: 9781616957964
Publisher: Soho Press
Language: English
Published: 04/18/2017
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/20/2017
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2017 pg. 27
Booklist 03/01/2017 pg. 38
Shelf Awareness 05/09/2017