“A timely story about what matters most deeply: our quest for love and acceptance….Jyotsna Sreenivasan’s writing speaks straight to the heart.” —Kim Barnes, author of In the Kingdom of Men
And Laughter Fell from the Sky, the enthralling first novel from Jyotsna Sreenivasan, is a stirring contemporary love story about two young Indian-Americans trying to find love and their place in the world, while dealing with the confines and pressures of their culture and their families. A remarkable literary journey that carries the reader from the American heartland to the Pacific Northwest and into the teeming heart of India, And Laughter Fell from the Sky is a magnificent debut by a fresh and exciting new voice, immediately placing Sreenivasan alongside Jhumpa Lahiri, popular author of The Namesake, as an expert chronicler of the Indian-American cultural experience.

And Laughter Fell from the Sky: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Sreenivasan, Jyotsna

United States

William Morrow Paperbacks

The Moon Over Crete -- Novel for ages 8-12. Listed in Great Books for Girls. Lily, 11, goes back 3,500 years to ancient Crete, where women and men were equal. "Paints a picture of a society where equality is a possibility, a possibility children need to grasp." -- Women in Libraries Newsletter, ALA.

The Moon Over Crete

Children's Books

Smooth Stone Press

Aruna's Journeys -- Novel for ages 8-12. Winner, 1998 Skipping Stones Award for Multicultural Books. One of only a few available novels dealing with Indian-American children. "Should be in every school and library." - Multicultural Review. "Puts many Indian traditions into a twentieth-century perspective, something rarely seen in children's literature today." - Booklist.

Aruna's Journeys

Ela Bhatt: Uniting Women in India (Women Changing the World)

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

The Feminist Press at CUNY

An insightful look at the long tradition of communal societies in the United States from colonial times to the present, examining their ideological foundations, daily life, and relationships to mainstream American society.
 • 40 entries on specific utopian communal movements in American history, from the Puritans to the Amish to single-tax movement communities
• 45 entries on special topics related to utopian life, including socialism, Bible-based communism, family roles, and leadership
• 25 entries on important figures, including Robert Owen and Eberhard Arnold, and events such as the Branch Davidian disaster
• A comparative chronology detailing the dates of existence of the utopias covered
• Bibliographical listings with each entry, leading to further investigations in print and online

Utopias in American History

Reference

ABC-CLIO

The most comprehensive encyclopedia available on the U.S. government's responses to poverty from the colonial era to the present day.
 • 170 alphabetically organized entries on policy directives, legislation, important individuals, and organizations that have influenced government approaches to dealing with poverty in the United States 
• Cross-referenced introductory essays on poverty and policy at the federal, state, local, and tribal-government level across the breadth of U.S. history
• A chronology with entries highlighting the evolution of policies and attitudes concerning the government's role in economic issues
• 40 primary source documents detailing major government policies towards poverty, such as FDR's Bill of Economic Rights
• Sidebars highlighting defining moments in the implementation of policies to poor relief policies, as well as profiles on the individuals involved in developing those policies

Poverty and the Government in America: A Historical Encyclopedia [2 volumes]

Business & Money

Economics

THESE AMERICANS, a debut collection of short fiction, explores what it means to live between Indian culture and American expectations. An Indian-born immigrant mother gives birth to her daughter in a small Ohio town. A college student avoids the academic expectations of her immigrant parents. A naïve immigrant mother is in denial about her lawyer daughter's lesbianism. This gripping collection of eight short stories and a novella will stay with you long after you turn the last page.

These Americans

Minerva Rising Press

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