# Go Home - Paperback

by **Sohrab Homi Fracis** (Author)

Sohrab Homi Fracis's debut novel _Go Home_ is the story of a Parsi foreign student in Delaware, who in the turbulent wake of the Iran hostage crisis can't distinguish his redneck oppressors from his Deadhead neighbors. Fracis's first book, the story collection Ticket to Minto: Stories of India and America (University of Iowa Press) won the Iowa Short Fiction Award. About _Go Home_, National Book Award winner Bob Shacochis writes: "At the heart of Sohrab Homi Fracis's poignant new novel, _Go Home_, is the question of one's place in the world, the answer never more ambiguous or fragile than for the immigrant or exile, when a person's condition of homelessness is in transition, neither here nor there. Given the cultural moment, I'm grateful to Fracis for his highly topical reexamination of the American Dream, a still reliable but never easy remedy for all those yearning to reinvent themselves beyond the constrictions of tribe and nation. And in _Go Home_, assimilation, sometimes a wretched exercise, can also be a hilarious and uplifting affair."

**About the Author**  
SOHRAB HOMI FRACIS is the winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award, juried by the legendary Iowa Writers' Workshop, for his collection, _Ticket to Minto: Stories of India and America_. It was re-published in India and Germany. He was Visiting Writer in Residence at Augsburg College and Artist in Residence at Yaddo. _Publishers Weekly_ said his stories "reflect a wide range of influences-from the somber realism of Somerset Maugham to the hip, colloquial humor of Junot Diaz."

**Advance Praise for _Go Home_**  
"At the heart of Sohrab Homi Fracis's poignant new novel, _Go Home_, is the question of one's place in the world, the answer never more ambiguous or fragile than for the immigrant or exile, when a person's condition of homelessness is in transition, neither here nor there. Given the cultural moment, I'm grateful to Fracis for his highly topical reexamination of the American Dream, a still reliable but never easy remedy for all those yearning to reinvent themselves beyond the constrictions of tribe and nation. And in _Go Home_, assimilation, sometimes a wretched exercise, can also be a hilarious and uplifting affair."  
\- Bob Shacochis, author of _The Woman Who Lost Her Soul_ (Dayton Literary Peace Prize) and _Easy in the Islands_ (National Book Award)

"I read _Go Home_ with great pleasure and lots of empathy for the displaced and somewhat mystified but always lovable Viraf and his misadventures in America. The author's (and Viraf's) powers of observation as well as the period he covers - Deadheads and Pintos, great fun - are distinctive qualities of his engrossing account of the immigrant experience."  
\- Diane Johnson, author of _Le Divorce_, _Persian Nights_, co-scriptwriter of _The Shining_

"_Go Home_ is the story of one man's journey to build a cultural bridge across continents, crossing waters that are unsettling and unsafe. While Fracis sets the novel during one of the most turbulent decades in both India's and the United States' history, his writing also offers insight in today's tense climate. Beautiful prose, wise and witty."  
\- Susan Muaddi Darraj, author of _A Curious Land_ (AWP Grace Paley Prize, American Book Award) and _The Inheritance of Exile_

"This is a beautiful novel about leaving home and moving to America, old world to new, and the courageous spirit of beginning a new life. With his accurate eye and marmalade-like descriptions, Sohrab Fracis's characters come alive. _Go Home_ fulfills the promise of his Iowa Short Fiction Award."  
\- Deepak Singh, commentator for NPR, BBC, and author of _How May I Help You? An Immigrant's Journey from MBA to Minimum Wage_

**Number of Pages:** 254

**Dimensions:** 0.53 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN

**Publication Date:** September 07, 2016

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