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Members Only : A Novel by Sameer Pandya; OverDrive, Inc is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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First the white members of Raj Bhatt’s posh tennis club call him racist. Then his life falls apart. Along the way, he wonders: where does he, a brown man, belong in America? This award-winning novel “offers deep insight into the ways the characters are shaped by racism” (Publishers Weekly). An NPR Best Book · A Millions Most Anticipated Title of 2020 · A Rumpus Best Book for Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month Raj is often unsure of where he belongs. Having moved to America from Bombay as a child, he knew few Indian kids. Now middle-aged, he lives mostly happily in California, with a job at a university. Still, his white wife seems to fit in better than he does at times, especially at their tennis club, a place he’s cautiously come to love. But it’s there that, in one week, his life unravels. It begins at a meeting for potential new members: Raj thrills to find an African American couple on the list; he dreams of a more diverse club. But in an effort to connect, he makes a racist joke. The committee turns on him, no matter the years of prejudice he’s put up with. And worse still, he soon finds his job is in jeopardy after a group of students report him as a reverse r

Who reads Members Only : A Novel?

Author

Sameer Pandya; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt;HMH Books; Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780358098546

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.3 / 5 (287 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14