How May I Help You?: An Immigrant's Journey from MBA to Minimum Wage

by Deepak Singh

Book Overview

In this moving and insightful work, Deepak Singh chronicles his downward mobility as an immigrant to a small town in Virginia. Armed with an MBA from India, Singh can get only a minimum-wage job in an electronics store. Every day he confronts unfamiliar American mores, from strange idioms to deeply entrenched racism.

Telling stories through the unique lens of an initially credulous outsider who is "fresh off the plane," Singh learns about...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520293312
• ISBN13: 9780520293311
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 305 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"