A review by kdhanda
Immigrant, Montana by Amitava Kumar

5.0

Loved this book, reminiscent of graduate school from the perspective of an Indian student. There were parts I could really relate to, the sense of confusion and loss, the feeling of being suspended between two worlds, the jokes that one does not quite understand and laughs before the punchline. I loved the graduate advisor, Ehsan, he reminded me of my own advisor, Iqbal Ali, that I looked up to. The book reads like a memoir and is segmented by his three lovers and the influence these women played on the narrators own maturity and growth. I wanted this book to never end. Hoping to see him in person at a book reading since he is at Vassar.