'Even better than I could have imagined . . . [it] takes all the expected stories about growing
up Indian American slices them open with razor-sharp wit and turns them inside out ' CELESTE
NG author of OUR MISSING HEARTS 'Nina McConigley is a true original . . . Heart-mending and
heart-breaking - as only the truth can be' TAYARI JONES author of AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE 'A
fierce and marvelous book with an utterly unique brightly burning lifeforce' MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD
author of GREAT CIRCLE Georgie and Agatha Krishna killed their uncle and they blame the
British. Summer 1986. The tween 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. According to Georgie the British are to
blame. And to understand why you need to hear her story. It's one of violence hiding in their
house and history of her once-unshakeable bond with her sister of being an Indian-American
girl in the heart of the West. Her account is cheeky unflinching and infectiously inflected
with the trappings of teendom: pen pal letters how-to guides games of MASH and
teen-magazine-style quizzes that promise to make sense of their lives. And the tale she weaves
is either: a) a vivid portrait of an extended family b) a moving story of sisterhood c) a
playful ode to the 80s d) a murder mystery (of sorts) e) a ruthless meditation on history and
language trauma and healing and the meaning of independence Or maybe it's really: f) all of
the above. 'I fell in love with McConigley's fierce wry narrator Georgie Ayyar from the
first page and couldn't stop reading. A powerful groundbreaking book' JESSAMINE CHAN author
of THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD MOTHERS 'I nventive and captivating . . . Full of heart and soul this
is a knockout work that deftly tackles the complex bonds of friendship and family' AIMEE
NEZHUKUMATATHIL author of WORLD OF WONDERS ' Spirited and witty stylish and audacious'
MEGHA MAJUMDAR author of A BURNING
