{"product_id":"the-best-possible-experience","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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51305242853664,"sku":"9780593470237","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9780593470237.jpg?v=1772754125","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/es\/products\/the-best-possible-experience","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}