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02194aam a2200361 i 4500 001 019A0ED601A811EDB8EAEDD844ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220712010056 008 220225t20222022nyu 000 f eng d 010 $a 2021949025 020 $a 1736176781 020 $a 9781736176788 040 $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a PS3616.O2872 $b B67 2022 082 04 $a 813/.6 $2 23/eng/20220401 100 1 $a Poddar, Namrata, $e author. 245 10 $a Border less : $b a novel / $c by Namrata Poddar. 246 3 $a Borderless. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Brooklyn : $b 7.13 Books, $c [2022] 300 $a 157 pages ; $c 22 cm. 500 $a Subtitle from cover. 520 $a "Dia Mittal is an airline call center agent in Mumbai searching for a better life. As her search takes her to the U.S., and eventually to Greater Los Angeles, Dia's checkered relationship with the American Dream dialogues with the experiences and perspectives of a global South Asian community across the class spectrum--call center agents, travel agents, immigrant maids, fashion designers, blue- and white-collar workers in the hospitality industry, junior and senior artists in Bollywood, hustling single mothers, academics, tourists in the Third World, Afro-Asian refugees displaced by military superpowers, Marwari merchants in the Thar Desert and trade caravans of the Silk Road, among others. What connects the novel's web of brown border-crossing characters is their quest for belonging and a negotiation of power struggles, mediated by race, class, caste, gender, religion, place or immigration. With its fragmented form, staccato rhythm, repetition, and play with English language, Border Less questions the assumptions of the "mainstream" Western novel."-- $c Back cover. 650 0 $a Women, East Indian $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Emigration and immigration $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Immigrants $z United States $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft. 655 7 $a Travel writing. $2 lcgft. 655 7 $a Social problem fiction. $2 lcgft. 941 $a 1 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20220712010416.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=019A0ED601A811EDB8EAEDD844ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search