{"product_id":"sutra-americana-monona-wali-9780299359942","title":"Sutra Americana","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1960 S. K. Sharma, a brilliant young astrophysicist at the beginning of his academic career, has finally succeeded in bringing his wife, Sushila, from India to America. Intensely drawn to one another as star university students, the couple pursue an unlikely affair and marriage that crosses caste lines. Their sweeping, decades-long story of love, forgiveness, and coming of age takes place in a country that is both fascinated by and shuns them. The United States, with its exaltation of individualism, offers immense opportunities, but its looser sexual mores threaten to undermine the family's happiness and devotion to one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs their three daughters become young women, they must navigate the tumultuous decades of the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, and the women's liberation movement. In their journeys of self-discovery, they upend their parents' hold on them to craft radically new identities for themselves. As they discover their parents' faults they grow increasingly puzzled by their devotion to one another, eventually learning how love and forgiveness have the power to overcome the most uncomfortable truths.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Monona Wali\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0299359948\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780299359942\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Monona Wali","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852718649599,"sku":"9780299359942","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sutra-americana-monona-wali-9780299359942","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}