Immigrant, Montana

A novel

De: Amitava Kumar

Narrado por: Amitava Kumar

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

ONE OF THE NEW YORKER’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

Carrying a single suitcase, Kailash arrives in post-Reagan America from India to attend graduate school. As he begins to settle into American existence, Kailash comes under the indelible influence of a charismatic professor, and also finds his life reshaped by a series of very different women with whom he recklessly falls in and out of love.

Looking back on the formative period of his youth, Kailash’s wry, vivid perception of the world he is in, but never quite of, unfurls in a brilliant melding of anecdote and annotation, picture and text. Building a case for himself, both as a good man in spite of his flaws and as an American in defiance of his place of birth, Kailash weaves a story that is at its core an incandescent investigation of love—despite, beyond, and across dividing lines.

rambling

the author seems obsessed with the word 'fuck'; both as a noun and a verb. I did not finish

Sex-Obsessed Grad Student Rambling

This was completely different than I expected! I thought it was going to be a great story about how a grad student from India finds success through his studies abroad. Instead, it was a series of ramblings that mostly involved crude sex obsessions and affairs. It was so incoherent, I couldn’t find a good reason to spend the time on finishing the book.

So very good

I’ve listened to it multiple times now. The author does such a great job narrating.