Ticket to Minto Sohrab Homi Fraciss premier fiction collection offers readers a passage to an unfamiliar destinationa world suspended between East and West India and America home and away With piercing insight Fracis expertly reveals the underlying differences between immersion in Indias cultureHindu Muslim or Parsiand life as an Indian in America Alternating between East and West the stories in Ticket to Minto serve as companion pieces interrelated across continents in both theme and content A middleaged mans search for love in Bombay is contrasted with an Indian American familys hopes for the marriage of their westernized daughter A university student rushes to save the life of a servant in his homeland only to find his own life threatened while attending graduate school in America Poignant and daring Ticket to Minto underlines the harsh realization that the immigrant never truly arrives but is in constant limbo between two worlds As one character relates Theres a part of me thats American and a part thats Indian Im clear about that and comfortable with it except that sometimes people want me to be just the one or the other