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  title info:
    title: Gold diggers
  name:
    name part: Sathian, Sanjena
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: novel
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 344 pages ; 21 cm.
  abstract: Spanning two continents, two coasts, and four epochs, Gold Diggers expertly balances social satire and magical realism in a classic striver story that skewers the model minority narrative, asking what a community must do to achieve the American dream. in razor-sharp and deeply funny prose, Sanjena Sathian perfectly captures what it is to grow up as a member of a family, of a diaspora, and of the American meritocracy. Gold Diggers both entertains and levels a critique of what Americans of color must do to make their way. A floundering second-generation teenager growing up in the Bush-era Atlanta suburbs, Neil Narayan is authentic, witty, and smart. He just doesn't share the same drive as everyone around him. His perfect older sister is headed to Duke. His parents' expectations for him are just as high. He tries to want this version of success, but mostly, Neil just wants his neighbor across the cul-de-sac, Anita Dayal. But Anita has a secret: she and her mother, Anjali, have been brewing an ancient alchemical potion from stolen gold that harnesses the ambition of the jewelry's original owner. Anjali's own mother in Bombay didn't waste the previous potion on her daughter, favoring her sons instead. Anita, on the other hand, just needs a little boost to get into Harvard. But when Neil--who needs a whole lot more--joins in the plot, events spiral into a tragedy that rips their community apart. Ten years later, Neil is an oft-stoned Berkeley history grad student studying the California gold rush. His high school cohort has migrated to Silicon Valley, where he reunites with Anita and resurrects their old habit of good theft --only now, the stakes are higher. Anita's mother is in trouble, and only god can save her. Anita and Neil must pull off one last heist. Gold Diggers is a fine-ground, profoundly intelligent, and bitingly comic investigation into questions of identity and coming of age--that tears down American shibboleths. --
  note: Sanjena Sathian.
  note: Originally published in hardcover by Penguin Press in 2021.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [343]-344).
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-ga
    geographic code: n-us-ca
  subject:
    topic: East Indian Americans
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: American Dream
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Success
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Ambition
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Gold theft
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Interpersonal relations
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Magic
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    geographic: Atlanta (Ga.)
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    geographic: San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
    genre: Fiction
  classification: 813/.6
  identifier: 9781984882059
  identifier: 1984882058
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 210825
    record change date: 20251222194602.3
    record identifier: in00005673449