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The Book Show #1567 - Amitava Kumar

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published July 31, 2018 at 3:00 PM EDT
Author Photo - Michael Lionstar

Amitava Kumar’s second novel, “Immigrant, Montana,” is a literary immigrant tale with a provocative modern edge, one that fuses story and reportage, anecdote and annotation, and picture and text.
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