David Wright Faladé recommends
The East Indian (2023)
Brinda Charry
"Tony, the 'East Indian' of the title of Brinda Charry's utterly enjoyable debut novel, reads like a character straight out of Dickens. Based on an actual historical figure, the first person from India documented in the records of Colonial Virginia, Tony ventures into the entangled richness of a nascent America'a place he calls, 'this precarious edge of the world.' It is peopled by 'servants' - both white and black, female and male - who find themselves as bound to the New World as they are to the Englishmen who rule it. Picaresque in style, lyrical of voice, gripping and authentic, The East Indian is a real treat."
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