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How May I Help You?

How May I Help You?

An Immigrant's Journey from MBA to Minimum Wage

Deepak Singh
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In this charming and insightful story, Deepak Singh chronicles his journey as an Indian immigrant in the United States of America.
Deepak falls in love with an American visiting India as an exchange student. The young couple gets married and leaves the country to live the American dream. Unfortunately for Deepak, he soon realizes that reality was completely different.
Armed with an MBA from a good B-school and quitting a cushy job in BBC, Deepak moves with his wife. But once in the US, all he is able to get is a minimum-wage job in an electronics store. Every day he confronts an unfamiliar American culture. He experiences the deeply entrenched racism and observes first-hand the crushing reality of being poor in America.
‘Fresh off the plane’, Deepak tells an intimate tale of living in an unfamiliar place, being the perennial outsider and making a mixed marriage work.
How May I Help You is a moving tale of love, empathy, vulnerability and hope that will keep you hooked till the last page.

Imprint: India Penguin

Published: Nov/2017

ISBN: 9780143442158

Length : 282 Pages

MRP : ₹399.00

How May I Help You?

An Immigrant's Journey from MBA to Minimum Wage

Deepak Singh

In this charming and insightful story, Deepak Singh chronicles his journey as an Indian immigrant in the United States of America.
Deepak falls in love with an American visiting India as an exchange student. The young couple gets married and leaves the country to live the American dream. Unfortunately for Deepak, he soon realizes that reality was completely different.
Armed with an MBA from a good B-school and quitting a cushy job in BBC, Deepak moves with his wife. But once in the US, all he is able to get is a minimum-wage job in an electronics store. Every day he confronts an unfamiliar American culture. He experiences the deeply entrenched racism and observes first-hand the crushing reality of being poor in America.
‘Fresh off the plane’, Deepak tells an intimate tale of living in an unfamiliar place, being the perennial outsider and making a mixed marriage work.
How May I Help You is a moving tale of love, empathy, vulnerability and hope that will keep you hooked till the last page.

Buying Options
Paperback / Hardback
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Deepak Singh

Deepak Singh is a writer, radio producer, and journalist. He is a frequent contributor to Public Radio International's World and has written for New York Times, National Public Radio, Boston Globe, and Atlantic.

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In How May I Help You, Deepak Singh chronicles his journey as an Indian immigrant in the United States of America. Even though he had an MBA degree, all he could do was to a minimum-wage job in an electronics store. As the days pass, he confronts an alien culture, experiences racism and observes the […]

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