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Home Has No Borders is another wonderful anthology from a group of really diverse writers. I liked reading authors I had met for the first time in the first anthology (Magic Has no Borders). All the authors are exploring what home means for young Desi people in various contexts.

I particularly loved:
we dine with our dead by Kanwalroop Kaur Singh (Sikh community grieving 1984 massacres against the Sikh)
Love the One You're With by Sheba Karim (young gay man discovering who he wants to be after working at a haunted house, even as his sister is fighting the good fight at home, and he struggles to defend her)
No Taste Like Home by Nisha Sharma (two college freshmen with the same last name but with family from different parts of India crossing paths while picking up each other's care packages and falling into a developing friendship/romance)

overall I really liked all the stories in the collection, though there was one that felt unfinished/ended abruptly and I'm not entirely sure what the point of the story was? I'm hoping that because this is an arc there was an issue and in the final print the paragraph that's repeated twice is removed and there's some kind of closure to the story, as all of the others felt fully rounded.

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This was such an engaging collection of stories. I enjoyed the diversity of subjects and characters. I even like the way that some of the stories played around with formatting and such.

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Home Has No Borders is another wonderful anthology! I loved seeing familiar authors and new telling stories about young desi people figuring out what home looks like in different times. Standouts include a Sikh community grieving the 1984 massacres of Sikhs in India (we dine with our dead from kanwalroop kaur singh), a young boy finding himself after meeting the devil and working at a haunted house (Love the One You're With by Sheba Karim), and two college freshmen who have the same last name meeting when they pick up each other's care packages (No Taste Like Home by Nisha Sharma). I can't wait to see more from these authors!

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