Optional Practical Training: A Novel

An elegantly inventive debut novel that offers a sharp new take on the immigrant story in post-9/11 America.

Told as a series of conversations,Optional Practical Trainingfollows Pavitra, a young Indian woman who came to the US for college from Bangalore, India, and graduates in 2006 with a degree in physics. Her student visa grants her an extra twelve months in the country for work experience-a period known as Optional Practical Training-so she takes a position as a math and physics teacher ...