Deep Singh Blue: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (927 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1939419689 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Moving Coming-of-Age, Immigrant Story" according to Doug L. Often wise and sad beyond his years, teen narrator Deep Singh primarily tells two overlapping stories: one of romantic love and the other of his troubled immigrant family. Deep falls in love with an older, married woman, who is abused, unhinged, and often mean. Meanwhile, his older brother Jag descends into a seeming psychosis, finding secret meanings in magazine clippings and finally falling into total silence. Deep’s parents refuse to acknowled. Catcher In the Rye in the California suburbs. lyle sanders I read Ranbir Sidhu's collection of short stories: Good Indian Girls - and loved each story - I was excited to read this book and I devoured it. It's set in small town America in the 80s and feels so real - I'm writing this review months after I read the book and the book still feels alive to me. I want honesty in a story and in characters. I want them to be flawed and complicated and frustrating to themselves. This book is incredibly real to me. It's
A master story-teller, Ranbir has weaved an original and refreshing multi-layered narrative." Moazzam Sheikh, author of Cafe Le Whore and Other StoriesThe Indian American narrator of Ranbir Singh Sidhu’s breathtaking debut, Deep Singh Blue, is troubled, unlikable, and out of control. In flawless, terse prose, Sidhu gives us the tale of a suffocating and often unhinged family, and leads us to the kind of authentic sympathy that only tragedy provides.” Titi Nguyen, essayist,
It doesn’t help that Lily is an alcoholic, hates her husband, and doesn’t think much of herself, or her immigrant Chinese mom either. As Deep’s growing obsession with Lily begins to spin out of control, the rest of his life seems to mirror his desperation culminating in his brother’s disappearance and an unfolding tragedy.Ranbir Singh Sidhu’s debut takes us into the heart of another America, and into the lives of the other Indiansthe ones who don’t get talked about and whose stories don’t get written.” With a sharp, funny and unsentimental eye, Sidhu chronicles the devastating consequences of racism in eighties’ America and offers a portrait of a wildly dysfunctional family trying to gain a foothold in their adopted country.. Deep Singh wants out out of his family, out of his city, and more than anything, out of his life. His parents argue over everything and his brother, who hasn’t said a single word in over a year, suddenly turns to him one day and tells him to die.So when Lily, a beautiful, older, and married, woman, shows him more than a flicker of attention, h