Foreign: A Novel of Land and Longing

The debut novel by the author of the critically acclaimed The Laughter, published in North America for the first time—the story of a mother who travels back to her home country of India to bring back her runaway son, and discovers anew the surprise and crises of the place she left behind.
Foreign begins in a small Indian village, where a desperate farmer, Bajirao Andhale, browbeaten by political strife and circumstance, contemplates whether he can go on with his life. Meanwhile, on the other...