Award-winning author and finalist for the Bellwether Prize for socially-engaged fiction, Jyotsna Sreenivasan, talks about her 2021 story collection, These Americans, inspired by the immigrant experience. She writes not only about the early years of adjustment and raising a family, and conflict with children, and the struggle to fit in; but also the later years of this passage into America, its long-terms imprints, and what it means to die in a country far away from one’s homeland. "What I want to do is connect with the reader’s heart and that feels spiritual to me."