Immigrant Comedy

Award-winning comedian Zarna Garg turns her astonishing life story into a hilarious memoir, spilling all the chai on her wild ride from escaping an arranged marriage and homelessness in India to carving her own path in America and launching a dazzling second act in midlife. “A deeply honest...

Actor Kal Penn recounts why he rejected the advice of his aunties and guidance counselors and, instead of becoming a doctor or “something practical,” embarked on a surprising journey that has included confronting racism in Hollywood, meeting his future husband, and serving as an Obama White...

In this escapist, swoon-worthy novel, a famous actress becomes embroiled in a fake tabloid romance, confronts the challenges of being a woman of color in Hollywood, and the notion that she might actually be in love. “A pure delight! Effortlessly cool, razor sharp, and crazy fun—I couldn’t...

In the spirit of Mindy Kaling’s bestseller Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? or Judd Apatow’s Sick in the Head, a collection of humorous, autobiographical essays from Kunal Nayyar, best known as Raj on CBS’s #1 hit comedy The Big Bang Theory. Of all the charming misfits on television...

Rising from rock bottom to sold-out shows in some of comedy’s biggest venues, Jimmy Shin’s story proves that even the darkest chapters can lead to a stage—and a second act you never saw coming. Jimmy Shin grew up in a house where the shouting was loud, the expectations were higher, and the alcohol was… always in stock. Somewhere between dodging flying objects and working at his family’s convenience store (where he was wildly underqualified but fully employed at age twelve), Jimmy discovered two things: humor could save you—and alcohol was a close second. What followed was a ...

A Queer Piece of Paper: From Mormon Girl to Rabbi’s Wife is a funny, honest, and deeply personal story about love, identity, and the long road to marriage equality. Born a fifth-generation Mormon in Provo, Utah, Kimberly Burnham grew up believing she would marry a man, take his last name, and follow the life path laid out for her. Instead, she fell in love with women, lived illegally in Canada, applied for a marriage license she knew would be denied, and once slept in a decoy bed that came with a black widow spider. Through sharp humor and heartfelt reflection, Burnham tells the story of ...

An early 20th-century immigrant’s story of perseverance—and his kidnapping by the US government Jack Inoway was 14 and alone when he left Japan for the United States. After decades of struggle, he eventually became a prominent restaurateur in Ohio. But in 1941...

Some of us are more equal than others.... Meet Stanley Huang: father, husband, ex-husband, man of unpredictable tastes and temper, aficionado of all-inclusive vacations and bargain luxury goods, newly diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. For years, Stanley has claimed that he’s worth a small...

Julie Tieu sparkles in this debut romantic comedy, which is charmingly reminiscent of the TV show Kim’s Convenience and Frankly in Love by David Yoon, about a young woman who feels caught in the life her parents have made for her until she falls in love and finds a way out of the donut trap...

Micky Kelly comes home for Christmas a failure. His grandmother is expecting her famous cannoli, but the city is out of Marsala wine. Determined to save the holiday, Micky sets out to find a bottle and ends up knee deep in trouble with the Irish bruisers and Italian schemers who make up his family. What begins as a simple errand turns into a crash course in who he is, what he fears, and the kind of man he might still become. Along the way he finds old grudges, unexpected help, and a truth he has been running from for years. A Cannoli Christmas is a gritty, funny, heartfelt story about ...

A bittersweet and humorous memoir of family—of the silence and ignorance that separate us, and the blood and stories that connect us—from an award-winning New York Times writer and comedian. Approaching his 30 birthday, Sopan Deb had found comfort in his day job as a writer for the New York...

Plane Crash with fatalities, but the real nightmare? The survivors’ rescuers are seven-foot intelligent antelopes with their own laws, religions, and a death sentence at the ever-ready. Religious fanaticism. A rigged Kafkaesque trial. Everything you thought you knew about civilization is turned upside down. Mack McElheney's job was simple: keep eighteen lottery millionaires safe on their dream vacation to Rio. That was before the crash on a remote mesa in Venezuela. Before the appearance of seven-foot Antelopes with emerald eyes who've remained hidden from humanity forever. A civilization...

In a world of rapidly changing values and traditions, an Indian woman enters into an arranged marriage to a man she barely knows and moves to distant Canada. Thirty-year-old Nina is an English teacher living alone in Jangpura, India. With diminishing prospects, she agrees to an arranged union. Her groom is the Indian-born Ananda, who lives in Canada. He once dreamed of becoming a doctor but settled for dentistry. He is lonely, and also in want of a spouse.

This one of a kind, Kurt Vonnegut-moving comic coming-of-age novel us set in a part of South India in which coconut trees, cobras, Catholic churches, and tiger dancers coexist with delicious fish curries and pork curries. Here, growing up, as an Indian boy with an American Dream set on fire by a dashingly handsome John F. Kennedy and his wife Jackie and by Readers Digest and Time magazine.. "The Revised Kama Sutra" is also an honest and uninhibited account of how difficult it was for many an Indian male, in the Seventies (and to a smaller extent, even today), to lose his virginity. Inflamed...

'Kept me laughing my ass off' Joanne McNally 'Delightful, complicated' Jerry Seinfeld 'It's insane to me, that Sarah became famous for miming, when her own voice is so hilarious, unique and important! We should have been listening to her this whole time' London Hughes Sarah Cooper is an expert...