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Sameer Pandya

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Born

in Ahmedabad, India

Website

http://www.sameerpandya.net

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Genre

Fiction, Contemporary

Member Since

January 2015

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Sameer Pandya is the author of the story collection THE BLIND WRITER, which was longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award. He is also the recipient of the PEN/Civitella Fellowship. His fiction, commentary, and cultural criticism has appeared in a range of publications, including the Atlantic, Salon, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, and Narrative Magazine. He teaches creative writing and South Asian and Asian American literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. MEMBERS ONLY is his first novel.

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Average rating: 3.87 · 3,197 ratings · 524 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Members Only 3.89 avg rating — 1,880 ratings — published 2020 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Our Beautiful Boys 3.82 avg rating — 1,292 ratings — published 2025 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Blind Writer, Stories and a Novella 4.25 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Last White Boyfriend and Other Epiphanies by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (translator), Edith Pearlman it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I’d had this feeling so many times in my life: the sense that I didn’t know how to manage a situation that everyone around me seemed to inhabit so effortlessly. Even”
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“I've seen what stress can do to how the heart functions. Just walking down the street here, or even in a big, mixed place like LA or New York, watching people watch you, listening to their questions, and figuring out the right answers, can calcify arteries. You know what I mean?”
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tags: microaggressions, racism

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“I felt the sanctity of the early morning again, the coolness and the possibility of a day that had not yet been misspent.”
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tags: morning

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