The book The inscrutable Americans by Anurag Mathur is a entertaining and touching novel about an Indian exchange student's year at a small American university. The book is a good attempt by the author but seems to be in embryonic form. It is good but not really up to the mark and misses on many points. The book is a bit unfocused and rushed, with characters pushed aside in quick succession. However, the book is a funny variation on the way too familiar theme of the naive abroad, and remains of some interest, both in how foreigners see the United States, and how Indians of a particular time and class sees abroad.
