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"Hilarious heartrending and wise Nishanth Injam's stories made me want to cast all else aside and return home." - Megha Majumdar author of A Burning
A young man traveling on a bus to his hometown as his fellow passengers vanish into the restroom...
A woman returning to a small village in India to visit her grandfather who lives with the ghosts of his son and wife...
A man preparing for his Green Card interview with the American woman he has paid to marry him...
The stories in The Best Possible Experience bring us intimate impeccably realized accounts of individuals haunted in every sense of the word by a loss of home. With rare empathy Nishanth Injam delivers a universal inquiry into the idea of belonging and shows above all that home is not a place so much as a people ready to accept you as you are.
Vivid vibrant and unwaveringly affecting these short stories announce the arrival of an incredible new literary talent.