Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • The Millions

    Surrounded by Choice: The Millions Interviews Sopan Deb

    by Martha Anne Toll Jul 15, 2022 6 minutes

    I first met Sopan Deb in 2020 when I moderated a virtual panel called Brown in America: Community, Culture, and Code, hosted by San Antonio’s Malvern Books. Deb had just published his first book, a memoir, Missed Translations: Meeting the Immigrant Parents Who Raised Me. Missed Translations is a breathtaking read about the contradictions in Deb’s upbringing. He had an all-American suburban childhood in New Jersey, yet was raised by Bengali parents who both drifted away from him by the time he became a young adult. Far from being a paean to loss, Missed Translations is a compassionate, at times humorous, recounting of Deb’s adult efforts to reconnect with both parents, now living worlds apart.

    Deb’s first novel, , published earlier this month by Simon & Schuster, is grounded in tragedy, but is ultimately a story of redemption. When the novel’s titular character dies in a car accident just after she’s come out to her parents as gay, her family—who was horrified by her revelation—is destroyed by her sudden death.

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from The Millions

    The Millions4 min read
    Why Write Memoir? Two Debut Authors Weigh In
    "It was hard on many levels, and I had to keep going back to why I was writing in the first place." The post Why Write Memoir? Two Debut Authors Weigh In appeared first on The Millions.
    The Millions19 min read
    Several Attempts at Understanding Percival Everett
    I knew from the dozens of other interviews I had read with him that Everett doesn’t love doing press. “I wonder why?” he joked to me. The post Several Attempts at Understanding Percival Everett appeared first on The Millions.
    The Millions6 min read
    Against ‘Latin American Literature’
    The classification of “Latin American literature” puts both Anglophone and Hispanophone writers in a double bind. The post Against ‘Latin American Literature’ appeared first on The Millions.

    Related Books & Audiobooks