Mother Ocean Father Nation: A Novel

"History has shown us what happens when an immigrant minority community becomes more dominant than the “native-born,” especially in a postcolonial region. Whatever the end result for the nation at large, there is always unbearable loss for individual families. Nishant Batsha’s Mother Ocean Father Nation is about just such a family. On an island somewhere in the South Pacific, the Indian immigrant minority holds power, until the natives get restless and the violence escalates into an international refugee crisis. Through it all, a brother and a sister learn about survival and secrets. Batsha balances his storytelling to examine the many ways we belong within and break away from our families, societies and homelands."