From the Ganges to the Snake River
An East Indian in the American Northwest
An Apple Books audiobook
Publisher Bo-Tree House
Narrated by a digital voice based on a human narrator.
Listen to the sample here https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/from-the-ganges-to-the-snake-river/id1819589429
From the Ganges to the Snake River, an East Indian in the American West is a collection of creative non-fiction stories that reflect on the immigrant experience and a culture left behind. Debu Majumdar gives a tender account of the difficulties, discoveries, and delights of being a stranger in a strange land. These stories interweave Asian Indian culture with North American reality, shuttling between past and present, myth, and careful observation of everyday life.
The wide range of topics covered include hunting, fishing, river float trips, horses as pets, social entertainment, and the special people of the area such as Mormon missionaries and Native Americans. Everyday life is sincerely described with meticulously observed details and human warmth. The book throws two vastly different ways of life into fascinating juxtapositions in a totally engaging way. Although Debu has been an American citizen for quite some time, he can no more escape his origins than any other American. Fortunately, he is able ‘to tell the truth without drawing blood’.
These stories, except Indians across the oceans, were originally published in Rendezvous magazine of the Idaho State University English Department. The full book was published by Caxton Press. Later, four chapters from the print version of the book were selected from all publications of Rendezvous magazines from 1966 – 2005 by Idaho State University for their Memorial volume titled Rendezvous: Forty years of History, Politics and Literature of the West, 2009.
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