Lords of Serendipity

<p><b>''As moving as it is hysterically funny'' Gary Shteyngart, author of <i>Vera, or Faith</i></b><br><b>''Tender, eviscerating, perfect'' Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of <i>The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao</i></b><br><br>Devi is a Sri Lankan village girl who dreams of going to Harvard. Devi''s father cleans toilets in a five-star hotel to pay for his daughter to be tutored by a dapper young Indian man - who might not be the Oxford scholar he claims to be on Whatsapp ...<br><br>Katrina is a middle-class American girl whose life has been designed to get her into an elite liberal arts college. Katrina''s father teaches extra courses at a mediocre technical university to pay for his daughter''s academic lifestyle. Meanwhile, his tech bro TA expertly extorts money from international students terrified of flunking out and being deported ...<br><br> Set between contemporary Sri Lanka and the United States, <i>Lords of Serendipity</i> is a global campus novel for the 21st century, a funny, moving, and sharply observed story about dreams and ambition meeting corruption and hypocrisy, about strivers and hustlers, and the lengths parents will go to for their children.</p>