Nag Is Hindi for Cobra

By TK Kenyon
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Published: June 14, 2011
Words: 8,690 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781458001375

Short description

Indian parents are very protective of their children. They berate, they cajole, and they nag. Minda tried to live her own life in the whirl of color and light of the theater, but when her parents applied the pressure, she caved. Now, she’s in graduate school in Iowa, but she can only pretend to be a nice, traditional Indian girl for so long before she cracks.

Extended description

Indian parents are very protective of their children. They berate, they cajole, and they nag. Minda tried to live her own life in the whirl of color and light of the theater, but when her parents applied the pressure, she caved. Now, she’s in graduate school in Iowa, studying viruses, but she can only pretend to be a nice, traditional Indian girl for so long before she cracks.
In this deep exploration of identity and culture, TK Kenyon again explores the most taboo subjects with delicacy and honesty. Booklist declared in a starred review that TK Kenyon is "definitely an author to watch."

TK Kenyon is an Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate, novelist, award-winning short story writer, pharmaceutical industry regulatory consultant, technical writer, molecular virologist, neuroscientist, minivan-driving mom, happy wife, cat slave, P90X devotee, surfer, high-handicap golfer, scuba diver, gourmet chef, mostly vegetarian, chocolatier, gardener, capsaicin addict, caffeine junkie, Apache a.. (Read more) Indian parents are very protective of their children. They berate, they cajole, and they nag. Minda tried to live her own life in the whirl of color and light of the theater, but when her parents applied the pressure, she caved. Now, she’s in graduate school in Iowa, studying viruses, but she can only pretend to be a nice, traditional Indian girl for so long before she cracks.
In this deep exploration of identity and culture, TK Kenyon again explores the most taboo subjects with delicacy and honesty. Booklist declared in a starred review that TK Kenyon is "definitely an author to watch."

TK Kenyon is an Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate, novelist, award-winning short story writer, pharmaceutical industry regulatory consultant, technical writer, molecular virologist, neuroscientist, minivan-driving mom, happy wife, cat slave, P90X devotee, surfer, high-handicap golfer, scuba diver, gourmet chef, mostly vegetarian, chocolatier, gardener, capsaicin addict, caffeine junkie, Apache and Scot descendant, native Arizonan, Connectikite, nouveau feminist, political moderate with extremist tendencies, radical atheist, Buddhist-curious, occasional UU, Tamil Ayer Brahmin Hindu by marriage, ex-actress, grown-up child beauty queen, PhD, MFA, BS (in so many ways), ASU Sun Devil, Iowa Hawkeye, UPenn Quaker, and always looking for something interesting to do.

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fiction, literary, short story, india, indian, indian fiction, india culture, desi

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