How to Read Provincially: On Sumana Roy’s “Provincials”
Sameer Pandya reviews Sumana Roy’s “Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries.”
Sameer Pandya is the author of the novel Members Only, a finalist for the California Book Award and an NPR “Book We Love” of 2020, and the story collection The Blind Writer (2015), long-listed for the PEN/Open Book Award. His forthcoming novel will be published in 2025 by Ballantine/Random House in the United States and Bloomsbury in the United Kingdom. His cultural criticism has appeared in a range of publications, including The Atlantic, Salon, Sports Illustrated, and ESPN. He is an associate professor of Asian American studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Sameer Pandya reviews Sumana Roy’s “Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries.”
Sameer Pandya traces the path of E. M. Forster’s classic novel in his own passage to India.