

America for Beginners
A Novel
Author: Leah Franqui
Narrator: Soneela Nankani
Unabridged: 11 hr 17 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 07/24/2018
Author: Leah Franqui
Narrator: Soneela Nankani
Unabridged: 11 hr 17 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 07/24/2018
Leah Franqui is a graduate of Yale University and received an MFA at NYU-Tisch. She is a playwright and the recipient of the 2013 Goldberg Playwriting Award, and also wrote a web series for which she received the Alfred Sloan Foundation Screenwriting award (aftereverafterwebseries.com). A Puerto Rican-Jewish Philadelphia native, Franqui lives with her Kolkata-born husband in Mumbai. AMERICA FOR BEGINNERS is her first novel.
This is the story of a mother who travels to America to find his missing son. There are a lot of relevant contemporary themes embedded in it. The topics pertaining to the pressures faced during migration to a different country, difficulties of people belonging to the LGBT community, how cons......more
An original and charming story. ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ Pival Sengupta lives in India, and she is recently widowed. A year prior, her son, Rahi, told his parents he was gay and fled for California. Before he died, Pival’s husband told her that their son had died. Pival packs her bags and heads to the United Stat......more
Favorite Quotes: They had raised Rebecca with strong assurances that she could be anything she wanted to be, and then, like so many American parents, were surprised and dismayed when she believed them. He ate ravenously at every meal, piling on plate after plate of rice and patting his nonexistent st......more