{"product_id":"cowboys-and-east-indians-stories-paperback","title":"Cowboys and East Indians: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNina McConigley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE PEN\/OPEN BOOK AWARD AND THE HIGH PLAINS BOOK AWARD ● For readers of Jhumpa Lahiri and Maile Meloy, a collection of stories about Indian immigrants in the rural American West full of \"such grace and understated power that you know you are in the presence of an incredible new voice in fiction\" (Kevin Wilson).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"We were the wrong kind of Indians living in Wyoming. There were Arapaho, Shoshone, even some Crow. And then there were us.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Richly textured, compassionate, and at times hilarious, \u003ci\u003eCowboys and East Indians\u003c\/i\u003e traces a journey from India to Wyoming and back again, introducing us along the way to characters who seem not quite to fit the circumstances in which they find themselves, but who nevertheless search for belonging--through unexpected common ground with their human neighbors or the abiding, if isolating, openness of the vast landscape of the West. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere is the woman newly arrived in Casper, asked by her husband's cowboy co-worker to help him cross-dress in her saris. The foreign exchange student who succumbs to kleptomania. A young Indian-American woman reckoning with her life in Casper with her white father, following the death of her Indian mother. And the American woman traveling to Chennai in the hopes of scoring discount Accutane for her chronic cystic acne. Seamlessly moving from character to character with empathy and unexpected connection, the stories in \u003ci\u003eCowboys and East Indians\u003c\/i\u003e show us the not-often-mentioned rural immigrant experience, communities in which identity is shaped not just by personal history, but by place, the very land on which they must build a home.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNINA McCONIGLEY\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the story collection \u003ci\u003eCowboys and East Indians, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was the winner of the PEN\/Open Book Award and the High Plains Book Award. She has received grants and fellowships from the NEA, the Radcliffe Institute, Bread Loaf, Vermont Studio Center, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference. She was a recipient of the Wyoming Arts Council's Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Writing Award and a finalist for a National Magazine Award for her columns in \u003ci\u003eHigh Country News\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has also appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, Orion, O: The Oprah Magazine, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Salon, \u003c\/i\u003eamong other outlets. Born in Singapore and raised in Wyoming, she now lives in Colorado.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 20, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51998458446125,"sku":"9798217006892","price":18.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/0HbYqUyfdf9798217006892.webp?v=1776509401","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/cowboys-and-east-indians-stories-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}