How does it feel to be uprooted from a place you call home, place you have lived all your childhood and then move on to a new country amongst new people, just with a hope in your heart of living a better life....

The Immigrant is a story about such people or in particular two people who due to personal tragedies have to move to a completely alien land and then build up their lives. its very well written and captures dilemmas and adjustments one have to make as an immigrant in a new country, how you are treated as something exotic in your adopted homeland vs the sudden rise in status back home as you are now an NRI.

The protagonist Nina encompasses what an immigarnt goes through after her marriage to an NRI and book explores many topics centred around feminism through her lens. There are instances when one feels that women are same everywhere, subject to struggles and violence even in so called first world.

Its a touching and heartwarming tale with hope of love; pain of loss, feelings of emptiness in a foreign land with no one to call your own, betrayel and then a journey again to rediscover one's identity. Few passages a very touching in the books especially one where Nina comes back to India after her mother's death and second how an immigrant is described as a temporary person without any base or roots, he has to move continously and find a new identity and roots everytime, shedding his core to become like his western counterpart to feel more acceptable and inclusive in his new surroundings and the constant conflict of dual identity.

I would give this book 4/5 ....

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