{"product_id":"the-best-possible-experience-stories-9780593470237","title":"The Best Possible Experience: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR - An emotionally rich collection of short stories, painting a fascinating portrait of contemporary India and its diaspora and a yearning rendering of the people and places we call home, from a major new literary talent. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A full-hearted, brilliant debut of necessary beauty.\" --Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of \u003ci\u003eChain-Gang All-Stars\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller \u003ci\u003eFriday Black\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Injam's stories made me want to cast all else aside and return home.\" --Megha Majumdar, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Burning\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVivid, vibrant, and unwaveringly affecting, \u003ci\u003eThe Best Possible Experience \u003c\/i\u003ebrings us intimate, impeccably realized accounts of individuals living in one of the most populous countries in the world and in its American diaspora--all haunted, in every sense of the word, by a loss of home. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Classically elegant in prose and consistently modern in outlook, Nishanth Injam's stories ques­tion what it means to have a home and to return home, and show, above all, that home is not a place so much as it is people who are ready to accept you as you are. We see a young man trapped on a bus on the way to visit his parents as his fellow pas­sengers vanish into the restroom. A family, newly in America, determined to host a perfect luncheon for their son's white classmate--with no idea what to serve him. A woman who returns to a small vil­lage in India every summer to visit the grandfather who raised her, a man who lives with the ghosts of his son and his wife. And a man preparing for his green card interview with the American woman he has paid to marry him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A sui generis talent, Injam first started writing after coming to the United States from India in his twenties. \u003ci\u003eThe Best Possible Experience\u003c\/i\u003e, his profoundly personal debut collection, delivers a universal in­quiry into the idea of belonging and preserves in writing the home he left behind, before it was lost\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNISHANTH INJAM\u003c\/b\u003e received an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan. He received a PEN\/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers and a Cecelia Joyce Johnson Award from the Key West Literary Seminar. His work has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eVirginia Quarterly Re­view, Zoetrope, The Georgia Review \u003c\/i\u003e(which won the 2022 ASME Award for Fiction for its publication of his story), Catapult's \u003ci\u003eBest Debut Short Stories 2021, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Magazine Writing 2022\u003c\/i\u003e. Raised in Telangana, India, he now lives in Illinois.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50513093689618,"sku":"9780593470237","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_88a091da-3eca-419d-b009-d062dbbfbdba.jpg?v=1730960091","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-best-possible-experience-stories-9780593470237","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}