The Door Is Open
Stories of Celebration and Community by 11 Desi Voices

Multiple authors write connected stories focused around South Asian immigrants in suburban New Jersey highlighting the use and enjoyment of a common community center.......more

The Door is Open is a collection of interconnected short stories that celebrate the diversity among South Asian Americans. The book features eleven different Desi voices, each sharing a standalone tale from the perspective of middle school characters. However, the stories are tied together by a comm......more

This is up there with Once Upon An Eid, which is one of my favorite books of all time. I loved it so much 💜🩵💚......more

This collection features stories centered on the Maple Grove, NJ, community center, where all the protagonists and their families gather for events, classes, celebrations, and more. Some of the characters do appear in multiple stories, but even if you find that hard to track, as I did, it won't detr......more

The 328 page middle grade book is a collection of 11 Desi voices, four of which are Muslim (Hena Khan, Reem Faruqi, Aisha Saeed, and N.H. Senzai). All 11 are threaded together by a fictional community center that houses badminton games, ameens, cooking classes, dancing for Navratri, chess tournament......more