The Shock of Arrival Reflections on Postcolonial Experience

'I haven't read anything close to her sense of trans-culture since V.S. Naipaul, another writer of Indian post colonialism....[A]s a writer, she is the voice of an exile....She is thoughtful and expressive....has a keen mind and is socially conscious.' Korean QuarterlyAcclaimed South Asian-American poet and novelist Meena Alexander unleashes a fury of prose and poetry to confront the stereotypes and explore the challenges facing postcolonial immigrants in America.