{"product_id":"habitations-9781668016107","title":"Habitations","description":"\u003cb\u003eA young academic moves from India to the United States, where she navigates first love, a green card marriage, single motherhood, and more in this \"delightful novel, written with immediacy, warmth, and wry humor\" (Ha Jin, National Book Award--winning author of \u003ci\u003eWaiting\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVega Gopalan is adrift. Still reeling from the death of her sister years earlier, she leaves South India to attend graduate school at Columbia University. In New York, Vega straddles many different worlds, eventually moving in and out of a series of relationships that take her through the striving world of academia, the intellectual isolation of the immigrant suburbs, and, ultimately, the loneliness of single motherhood. But it is the birth of Vega's daughter that forces the novel's central question: What does it mean to make a home? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten with dry humor and searing insight, \u003ci\u003eHabitations \u003c\/i\u003eis an \"irresistible debut\" (Deesha Philyaw, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Lives of Church Ladies\u003c\/i\u003e) about identity, immigration, expectation, desire, and love lost and found. But it is also a universal story of womanhood, and the ways in which women are forced to navigate multiple loyalties: to family, to community, and to themselves. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA \"sweeping, immersive, and utterly perfect\" (Weike Wang, author of \u003ci\u003eChemistry\u003c\/i\u003e) meditation on the many meanings of home and on the ways love and kinship can be found, even in the most unfamiliar of places, \u003ci\u003eHabitations\u003c\/i\u003e introduces Sheila Sundar as an electrifying new voice in literary fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sheila Sundar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/02\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781668016107\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/19\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2024 pg. 21\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSheila Sundar is a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Mississippi. Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMassachusetts Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Threepenny Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She lives in New Orleans with her husband and their three children. \u003ci\u003eHabitations \u003c\/i\u003eis her debut novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43769281085555,"sku":"9.78167E+12","price":26.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_475dcf4c-7ab6-46d9-be8c-36c57db98628.jpg?v=1757074142","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/habitations-9781668016107","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}