Nominated for the 2017 National Book Award for Young People's Literature? Horn Book ?School Library Journal ?Publishers Weekly ?Booklist?Shelf Awareness?VOYAFive girls. Three generations. One great American love story.You Bring the Distant Nearexplores sisterhood, first loves, friendship, and the inheritance of culture--for better or worse. Ranee, worried that her children are losing their Indian culture; Sonia, wrapped up in a forbidden biracial love affair; Tara, seeking the limelight to hide her true self; Shanti, desperately trying to make peace in the family; Anna, fighting to preserve Bengal tigers and her Bengali identity--award-winning author Mitali Perkins weaves together a sweeping story of five women at once intimately relatable and yet entirely new.

 

This book has been graded for interest at 12+ years.

There are 320 pages in this book. This book was published 2017 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc .

Mitali Perkins was born in Kolkata. Her family soon left India, living in Ghana, Cameroon, England and Mexico before emigrating to the United States. They eventually settled in California. Mitali studied political science at Stanford University and public policy at the University of California, Berkeley. She is married to the Reverend Robert K. Perkins II and has twin sons. She lives in Newton, Massachusetts.