A Great Country
A Novel
INSTANT #1 BESTSELLER
From the New York Times bestselling author, a novel in the tradition of Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere, exploring the ties and fractures of a close-knit Indian-American family in the aftermath of a violent encounter with the police.
Pacific Hills, California: Gated communities, ocean views, well-tended lawns, serene pools, and now the new home of the Shah family. For the Shah parents, who came to America twenty years earlier with little more than an education and their new marriage, this move represents the culmination of years of hard work and dreaming. For their children, born and raised in America, success is not so simple.
For the most part, these differences among the five members of the Shah family are minor…
Shilpi Somaya Gowda was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. Her first novel, Secret Daughter, was published in 2010. It was a New York Times and #1 international bestseller, and was translated into over 30 languages. Secret Daughter was an Indie Next Great Read, a Target Book Club Pick, a Chapters Indigo Heather’s Pick, and an Amnesty International Book Club Pick. It was a finalist for the South African Boeke Literary Prize and the Dublin Literary Award. Her second novel, The Golden Son, was published in 2015 around the world, was a #1 international bestseller, a Target Book Club Pick, a Costco Buyers’ Pick, and was awarded the French literary prize, Prix des Lycéens Folio. Her third novel, The Shape…
