Quoted:too used to freedom to accept the rituals and conventions of home, and yet too steeped in tradition to embrace American mores fully. These Indian-born parents want the American Dream for their children — name-brand schools, a prestigious job, a roomy house in the suburbs — but they are cautious about the pitfalls of life in this alien land, and isolated by their difficulties with language and customs. Their children too are often emotional outsiders: having grown up translating the mysteries of the United States for their relatives, they are fluent navigators of both Bengali and American culture but completely at home in neither;..

Quoted: These are the books that are disappointing only because they have to end.

Quoted: The Book Review picks the best works from the last year.

Quoted: The Book Review has selected this list from books reviewed since the Holiday Books issue of Dec. 3, 2006.

A useful list- with direct links to reviews. Includes works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry.