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- Every immigrant has a story. So does every immigrant culture. Mingling loss and gain, hope and pain, human migration continues to this day, but Rishi Reddi’s first novel, Passage West, explores the history of a somewhat unknown group: South Asians (specifically, Sikhs from Punjab) transplanted to the West Coast around 1910.
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Apr 21, 2020 · In her ambitious debut novel, Rishi Reddi, award-winning author of Karma and Other Stories, explores an enduring question: Who is welcome in America? Richly imagined and beautifully rendered, Passage West offers a moving portrait of one man’s search for home.
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Apr 23, 2020 · In her promising but frustratingly uneven novel, Reddi tells the story of some of those immigrants, who hoped to find a home in Southern California but found hatred and violence instead.
May 14, 2020 · Rishi Reddi’s debut novel, Passage West (Ecco/HarperCollins, April 21), tells the story of a group of Sikh men from India, then a British colony, who migrated to California’s Imperial Valley in the early 20 th century to farm the land.
Apr 30, 2020 · Passage West is a vibrant first novel from Rishi Reddi following a family of Indian sharecroppers at the onset of World War I, revealing a little-known part of California history.
Apr 23, 2020 · The little-known history of South Asians working in the lumber mills of the Pacific Northwest, on California farms, and fighting in World War I became the inspiration for Reddi’s debut novel.
Mingling loss and gain, hope and pain, human migration continues to this day, but Rishi Reddi’s first novel, Passage West, explores the history of a somewhat unknown group: South Asians (specifically, Sikhs from Punjab) transplanted to the West Coast around 1910.
Apr 21, 2020 · PASSAGE WEST. by Rishi Reddi ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 21, 2020. A debut novel recounts the struggles and triumphs of immigrants in California’s Imperial Valley a century ago. Reddi’s novel opens in 1974 with the death of a cantankerous old man named Karak Singh Gill, attended by a longtime friend, the equally cantankerous Ram Singh.
