Here we are : American dreams, American nightmares /
Shahani, Aarti Namdev,
Here we are : American dreams, American nightmares / Title on dust jacket: Here we are : a memoir. Aarti Namdev Shahani. - First edition. - 245 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Act 1. Backstory -- Act 2. We made it -- Act 3. Breaking at the seams -- Intermission : Reporting the case -- Act 4. Stranger things -- Act 5. Stretch goal -- Act 6. Leaving and finding home -- Epilogue: Dear Dad.
The Shahanis came to Queens--from India, by way of Casablanca--in the 1980s. They were undocumented for a few unsteady years and then, with the arrival of their green cards, they thought they'd made it. This is the story of how they did, and didn't; the unforeseen obstacles that propelled them into years of disillusionment and heartbreak; and the strength of a family determined to stay together. -- inside front book jacket flap.
9781250204752
Shahani, Aarti Namdev.
Shahani, Aarti Namdev--Family.
East Indian Americans--Biography.
Immigrants--United States--Biography.
Fathers and daughters--United States--Biography.
Radio journalists--United States--Biography.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
E184 .E2 / S535 2019
Here we are : American dreams, American nightmares / Title on dust jacket: Here we are : a memoir. Aarti Namdev Shahani. - First edition. - 245 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Act 1. Backstory -- Act 2. We made it -- Act 3. Breaking at the seams -- Intermission : Reporting the case -- Act 4. Stranger things -- Act 5. Stretch goal -- Act 6. Leaving and finding home -- Epilogue: Dear Dad.
The Shahanis came to Queens--from India, by way of Casablanca--in the 1980s. They were undocumented for a few unsteady years and then, with the arrival of their green cards, they thought they'd made it. This is the story of how they did, and didn't; the unforeseen obstacles that propelled them into years of disillusionment and heartbreak; and the strength of a family determined to stay together. -- inside front book jacket flap.
9781250204752
Shahani, Aarti Namdev.
Shahani, Aarti Namdev--Family.
East Indian Americans--Biography.
Immigrants--United States--Biography.
Fathers and daughters--United States--Biography.
Radio journalists--United States--Biography.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
E184 .E2 / S535 2019