April 20, 2020
 April 20, 2020 This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book releasing in the next few months that we would like to get on your radar now. Read more about it, and enter our Spring Preview Contest by Tuesday, April 21st at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of MEMBERS ONLY by Sameer Pandya, which releases on July 7th. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!  Today's Featured Book and Contest:  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? Raj Bhatt 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 is thrilled to find an African American couple on the list, as 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 racist, thanks to his alleged “anti-Western bias.” Heartfelt, humorous and hard-hitting, MEMBERS ONLY explores what membership and belonging mean, as Raj navigates the complicated space between black and white America. Click here to enter the contest This is a special newsletter for our Spring Preview contests, which will mail on select days through April 23rd. This newsletter is separate from our weekly Bookreporter.com newsletter, which mails every Friday. You can subscribe to that newsletter here. Please visit the other websites in TheBookReportNetwork.com: ReadingGroupGuides.com and AuthorsOnTheWeb.com. |
