Celebrate the Release of Dr. Tamara Bhalla's New Book!

Reading Together, Reading Apart: Identity, Belonging, and South Asian American Community • Discovering authenticity and identity in a book club. Often thought of as a solitary activity, the practice of reading can in fact encode the complex politics of community formation. Engagement with literary culture represents a particularly integral facet of identity formation--and expresses of a sense of belonging--within the South Asian diaspora in the United States.