Karma and Other Stories
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    [synopsis] => "Reddi's understated prose and her choice of detail give her revelations a quiet power." - The New Yorker
	"[A]mong such time-tested topics of immigrant fiction, Reddi suddenly soars." - San Francisco Chronicle
	"While many of the stories seem simple, characters and plots linger long after you turn the page." - Washington Post
	"…reminiscent of Jhumpa Lahiri... The immigrant experience...is rendered with the starkest honesty… substance and depth." - Philadelphia Inquirer
	"Reddi has produced a piece of writing that masterfully contrasts the assumed with the experienced, myth with reality." - India Currents
	"...superb debut collection... much like Jhumpa Lahiri…a gem of a book…characters remain etched in memory…" - Indian Express
	"In deceptively simple prose...a compassionate look at what happens when the insular world of the Indian immigrant is breached." - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
	"…Reddi deftly employs images to crystallize... the isolation and occasional bewilderment shared by her sympathetic characters." - Publishers Weekly
	"This excellent debut collection... [offers] elegant studies of a culture that is both familiar and foreign." - Booklist
	"Reddi's voice is gentle and her eye watchful...A soft-spoken, sympathetic collection." - Kirkus Reviews
	"Sad, sweet, tender--a truly lovely book." - Kiran Desai, Man Book Prize-winning author of THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS
	"Only the finest writers can craft short stories with the richness of a novel...[an] exceptional debut collection." - Arthur Golden, bestselling author of MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
	"Rishi Reddi has written a unique and beautiful book with the power to both entertain and educate." - Judith Guest, bestselling author of ORDINARY PEOPLE
	"Reddi's characters are complicated people...and, as are the stories they inhabit, memorable and very worthy of our attention. Exquisite." - Binnie Kirshenbaum, author of AN ALMOST PERFECT MOMENT
	"Reddi is the brightest light in Boston's latest literary constellation." - Boston magazine
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