Pioneer Boulevard: Los Angeles Stories

The ten stories in Pioneer Boulevard, named for the Artesia, CA street that is known as Little India, are set in the Indian community of Los Angeles. Most of the protagonists are, like the author, women who have migrated to LA from India, but the book is populated with characters from other countries, including Mexico, El Salvador, Vietnam, Pakistan, and England. Set in the context of the recent economic crisis, the sense of an overstretched, underfinanced world pervades these narratives. O...