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Beena Kamlani

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Beena Kamlani is a Pushcart Prize-winning fiction writer whose work has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review; Ploughshares; Identity Lessons: Learning to Be American, eds. Gillan (1999); Growing Up Ethnic in America, eds. Gillan (2000); The Lifted Brow (2008); World Literature Today; and other publications. She has been awarded fellowships at Yaddo, MacDowell, Ledig House/Writers Omi, Hawthornden Castle, Jentel Arts, and Hedgebrook. A former senior editor for the Penguin Group, she taught book editing at New York University for nearly two decades and was presented an award for teaching excellence. The English Problem is her first novel.

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	The English Problem 3.61 avg rating — 1,141 ratings — published 2025 — 5 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
	Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction About Learning to Be American by Maria Mazziotti Gillan (Editor), Jennifer Gillan (Editor), E.L. Doctorow (Contributor) 3.81 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 1999 — 7 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

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“Home is to know that your children will come back from school, to walk in the street without terror in their hearts. Freedom from fear is home.”
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“People were waking up to the horrific consequences of ignoring government.”
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“Cruelty has many forms. We humans have perfected all of them.”
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