TY - BOOK ID - 77894041 TI - Train to Agra PY - 2001 SN - 0809390280 1299050859 9780809390281 0809324059 9780809324057 9781299050853 PB - Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press, DB - UniCat KW - East Indian Americans KW - Asian Indian Americans KW - Indian Americans (East Indian Americans) KW - Indic Americans KW - East Indians KW - Ethnology KW - India UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77894041 AB - Calling upon two cultures, Vandana Khanna's Train to Agra meditates on the effects of displacement and expatriation on the construction of a young Indian American woman's identity. The physical journeys undertaken by the speaker reflect her inner journey from immigrant child to Indian American woman, struggling to find her place between India and America, Krishna and Jesus, samosas and hamburgers. The speaker constantly tries to recapture visions, smells, and sounds of her childhood and her travels, but cannot do so without imagination. Her memory fails her, so through meta ER -