Lords of Serendipity 9780349148960 Hardback

A SHARPLY FUNNY AND MOVING NOVEL WHERE THOUSANDS OF MILES APART FROM EACH OTHER, TWO GIRLS HAVE THE SAME DREAM . . .’Tender, eviscerating, perfect’Junot Daz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao’As moving as it is hysterically funny’Gary Shteyngart, author ofVera, or Faith’Sparkling, humane and irresistible’Garth Risk Hallberg, author ofCity on Fire_____________________________Deviis a Sri Lankan village girl who dreams of going to Harvard. Devi’s father cleans toilets in a five-star hotel to pay for his daughter to be tutored by a dapper young Indian man – who might not be the Oxford scholar he claims to be on Whatsapp . . .Katrinais a middle-class American girl whose life has been designed to get her into an elite liberal arts college. Katrina’s father teaches extra courses at a mediocre technical university to pay for his daughter’s academic experiences. Meanwhile, his tech bro TA expertly extorts money from international students terrified of flunking out and being deported . . .Set between contemporary Sri Lanka and the United States,Lords of Serendipityis a global campus novel for the 21st century. A funny, moving, and sharply observed story about dreams and ambition meeting corruption and hypocrisy, about strivers and hustlers, and the lengths parents will go to for their children._____________________________PRAISE FORLORDS OF SERENDIPITY’Randy Boyagoda’sLords of Serendipityis utterly fantastic and timely beyond belief. This is the campus novel we’ve all been waiting for: tender, eviscerating, perfect’Junot Daz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao’A book that’s a feast, an occasion and a celebration. Randy Boyagoda delightfully skewers the industrial-academic complex but also creates moving characters who seem to have walked in from the dorm and faculty meeting next door. The result is as moving as it is hysterically funny’Gary Shteyngart,New York TimesBestselling author ofVera, or Faith’This is a new kind of campus novel, a wicked but humane satire…’Tom Perrotta’A sparkling, humane, and irresistible campus novel. As Randy Boyagoda celebrates (and subverts) the comedy of college, he offers what any good education should: not a microcosm, sealed off from the world, but a wide-ranging, free-thinking inquiry into life beyond the ivory tower’Garth Risk Hallberg, author ofCity on Fire