From the writer of the prize-winning assortment Quarantine, an insightful, compelling debut novel set in rural the US and India within the Nineteen Eighties and ’90s, half coming-of-age tale a couple of homosexual Indian American boy, half kinfolk saga approximately an immigrant family’s struggles to discover a feeling of belonging, identification, and hope.

In a rural neighborhood in Western ny, twelve-year-old Kiran Shah, the American-born son of Indian immigrants, longingly observes his prototypically American friends, the Bells. He attends tuition with Kelly Bell, yet he’s powerfully drawn—in a manner he doesn't but understand—to her charismatic father, Chris.

Kiran’s yearnings echo his mom and dad’ bewilderment as they struggle to regulate to a brand new global. His father, Nishit Shah, a profitable health professional, is haunted by way of innovations of the brother he left in the back of. His mom, Shanti, struggles to just accept a existence with a guy she didn't choose—her marriage to Nishit was once arranged—and her becoming attachment to an American guy. Kiran is just about his older sister, Preeti—until an unforeseen danger and an unfathomable betrayal force a wedge among them that may reverberate via their lives.

As he leaves early life at the back of, Kiran unearths himself forever at the outside—as an Indian American torn among cultures and as a homosexual guy in a homophobic society. within the wake of an emotional breakdown, he travels to India, the place he kinds an extreme bond with a teenage hijra, a member of India’s historical transgender group. together with her support, Kiran starts to drag jointly the items of his damaged past.

Sweeping and emotionally advanced, No different World is a haunting meditation on love, belonging, and forgiveness that explores the road among our obligations to our households and to ourselves, the tough offerings we make, and the painful price of saying our real selves.