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Optional Practical Training

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An elegantly inventive debut novel that offers a sharp new take on the immigrant story in post-9/11 America Told as a series of conversations, Optional Practical Training follows Pavitra, a young Indian woman who came to the US for college from Bangalore, India, and graduates in 2006 with a degree in physics. Her student visa grants her an extra twelve months in the country for work experience—a period known as Optional Practical Training—so she takes a position as a math and physics teacher at a private high school near Cambridge, Massachusetts. What Pavitra really wants, though, is the time and space to finish a novel—to diverge from what's expected of her within her family of white-collar professionals and to build a life as a writer. Navigating her year of OPT—looking for a room to rent, starting her job—she finds that each person she encounters expects something from her too. As her landlord, colleagues, students,...
Request Code : ZLIB.IO18466648
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Year:
2024
Publisher:
Graywolf Press
Language:
English
ISBN 13:
9781644453247
ISBN:
9781644453254,9781644453247

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