Foreign: A Novel of Land and Longing

A mother returns to her home country of India to bring back her runaway adolescent son and discovers anew the surprise and crises of the place she left behind.

Katya Misra leads a carefully constructed academic life in Seattle—until one evening, she learns her adolescent son Kabir has run away to India to find the father he has never met. Contemptuous of her mother country, Katya is determined to bring her son home.

Foreign then moves to a small Indian village gripped by an epidemic of farmer...