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Anuradha D. Rajurkar’s “American Betiya” is a 21st-century variant of an archetypal tale: the first-generation American navigating between her parents’ old-country values and the exciting world around her as she figures out who she is. Stir in hormones and a love both first and forbidden, and that journey of self-definition becomes an urgent one.
Rani, a high-school senior in Evanston, Illinois, dutifully follows the study-hard, get-into-medical-school trajectory her Indian parents sanction, until her encounter with Oliver, a tattooed white classmate, at a gallery opening of her photos. She is modest about her photos, while he is intense about making art (painting, collage and installation).