Suburban Sahibs: Three Immigrant Families and Their Passage from India to America » (1st Edition)

Journalist Kalita (Washington Post) considers how immigration by South Asians has altered the American suburb, and how the suburb has in turn altered these immigrants. The text focuses on the stories of three Indian families who settled in Middlesex County in central New Jersey. Kalita is the daughter of immigrants from the Indian state of Assam. The volume is not indexed. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The New York Times

Vikram Chandra, Jhumpa Lahiri and other celebrated writers of the South Asian diaspora have given us some of the most exciting new fiction in English of recent years. To a growing shelf of fictional portraits of the Indian expatriate experience, S. Mitra Kalita now adds a work of nonfiction that stands up well in their company. Modest in scope, but as shapely as fiction and as timely as this morning's newspaper, this book is an informative one to read for pleasure. — John S. Major