{"title":"Nina McConigley","description":"NINA McCONIGLEY is the author of the story collection Cowboys and East Indians, which was the winner of the PEN Open Book Award and the High Plains Book Award. She has received grants and fellowships from the NEA, the Radcliffe Institute, Bread Loaf, Vermont Studio Center, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference. She was a recipient of the Wyoming Arts Council's Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Writing Award and a finalist for a National Magazine Award for her columns in High Country News. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, Orion, O: The Oprah Magazine, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Salon, among other outlets. Born in Singapore and raised in Wyoming, she now lives in Colorado.","products":[{"product_id":"cowboys-and-east-indians-stories-paperback","title":"Cowboys and East Indians: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE PEN\/OPEN BOOK AWARD AND THE HIGH PLAINS BOOK AWARD ● For readers of Jhumpa Lahiri and Maile Meloy, a collection of stories about Indian immigrants in the rural American West full of \"such grace and understated power that you know you are in the presence of an incredible new voice in fiction\" (Kevin Wilson).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"We were the wrong kind of Indians living in Wyoming. There were Arapaho, Shoshone, even some Crow. And then there were us.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Richly textured, compassionate, and at times hilarious, \u003ci\u003eCowboys and East Indians\u003c\/i\u003e traces a journey from India to Wyoming and back again, introducing us along the way to characters who seem not quite to fit the circumstances in which they find themselves, but who nevertheless search for belonging--through unexpected common ground with their human neighbors or the abiding, if isolating, openness of the vast landscape of the West. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere is the woman newly arrived in Casper, asked by her husband's cowboy co-worker to help him cross-dress in her saris. The foreign exchange student who succumbs to kleptomania. A young Indian-American woman reckoning with her life in Casper with her white father, following the death of her Indian mother. And the American woman traveling to Chennai in the hopes of scoring discount Accutane for her chronic cystic acne. Seamlessly moving from character to character with empathy and unexpected connection, the stories in \u003ci\u003eCowboys and East Indians\u003c\/i\u003e show us the not-often-mentioned rural immigrant experience, communities in which identity is shaped not just by personal history, but by place, the very land on which they must build a home.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102235267295,"sku":"9798217006892","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/0HbYqUyfdf9798217006892.webp?v=1781079193"},{"product_id":"how-to-commit-a-postcolonial-murder-hardcover","title":"How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bold, inventive, and fiercely original debut novel that begins with an uncle dead and his tween niece's private confession to the reader--she and her sister killed him, and they blame the British. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I have been waiting for Nina McConigley's debut novel for years and it's even better than I could have imagined.\" --Celeste Ng \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Spirited and witty, stylish and audacious...Its avid curiosity about the world, its alertness to history, and its enormously fun storytelling--with a twist at the end--held me in their spell.\" --Megha Majumdar \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSummer, 1986\u003c\/i\u003e. The Creel sisters, Georgie Ayyar and Agatha Krishna, welcome their aunt, uncle and young cousin--newly arrived from India--into their house in rural Wyoming where they'll all live together. Because this is what families do. That is, until the sisters decide that it's time for their uncle to die. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAccording to Georgie, the British are to blame. And to understand why, you need to hear her story. She details the violence hiding in their house and history, her once-unshakeable bond with Agatha Krishna, and her understanding of herself as an Indian-American in the heart of the West. Her account is, at every turn, cheeky, unflinching, and infectiously inflected with the trappings of teendom, including the magazine quizzes that help her make sense of her life. At its heart, the tale she weaves is: \u003cbr\u003e a) a vivid portrait of an extended family\u003cbr\u003e b) a moving story of sisterhood\u003cbr\u003e c) a playful ode to the 80s\u003cbr\u003e d) a murder mystery (of sorts)\u003cbr\u003e e) an unexpected and unwaveringly powerful meditation on history and language, trauma and healing, and the meaning of independence \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOr maybe it's really: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e f) all of the above.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102277832927,"sku":"9780593702246","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/vSqTzSjWo09780593702246.webp?v=1781079269"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/nina-mcconigley.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}