Novelist details an emerging N.J. community, a budding romance and the riches of Bollywood.
Two pages into her debut novel, “Edison,” Pallavi Sharma Dixit passes the litmus test of Garden State authenticity. There, a motorist at an Exxon station starts to exit his car to handle the refueling himself. “This is New Jersey, sir,” an attendant reminds him, quickly restoring order in the last bastion of no self-serve.
New Jersey references abound in Dixit’s warm and witty paean to the titular town of her youth, as well as to the Hindi movies unspooling there on VCRs. Mentions of the Cheesecake Factory at the Menlo Park Mall, Chi-Chi’s on Route 1 near Woodbridge Center Mall or the United Skates roller rink might raise a smile of recognition from longtime denizens of Central Jersey.
Yet while the novel unfolds between 1986 and 2002, “Edison” is no mere stroll down memory lane, but rather a journey toward the American dream via Oak Tree Road, around which an Indian immigrant community is taking root. At its heart, the story is an endearing boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl romance, all of it enlivened by Dixit’s playful, irrepressible wit and her references to the traditions of the parallel screen universe known as Bollywood.
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