<p><b>A <i>New York Times</i> Book of the Year</b><br><b>Chosen by Barack Obama as one of his books of the year<br></b><br><b>Meet Kailash. Also known as Kalashnikov. Or AK-47. Or just plain AK. His journey from India has taken him to graduate school in New York where he keeps falling in love: not just with women, but with literature and radical politics, the fuel of youthful exuberance. Each heady affair brings new learning: about himself, and about his relationship to a country founded on immigration ¿ a country that is now unsure of the migrant¿s place in the nation¿s fabric. But how can AK learn to belong when he¿s in a constant state of exile</b></p>