# Savages and Other Neighbours

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2017/05/26/savages-and-other-neighbours/
- Published: 2017-05-26T02:07:41+00:00
- Author: shuktara

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**Author:** Michael Chacko Daniels [](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/WP_20170501_16_44_20_Pro-1-e1495660020590.jpg)
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Pages:** 636 **Year of Publication:** 2017 **Price:** Rs 1000 / $40 **ISBN: **978-
93-5045-142-7 (9789350451427)

_**About the Author**_
 Michael Chacko Daniels is a former community worker and 
clown who grew up in Mumbai and now lives in San Francisco. **Writers Workshop**,
India, has published six of his books: _**Split in Two**_ (poetry, 2004), _**Anything
Out of Place Is Dirt**_ (novel, 2004), _**That Damn Romantic Fool**_ (novel, 2005),_**
Morning in Santiniketan**_ (haiku, 2010), _**The Mendonҫa Mystery and Other Stories**_(
short stories, 2014) and _**The Flea-Driven Traveler & Fifty-One Senryu, Haiku, 
Haibun**_ (poetry, 2016). He worked as a publisher and editor for four years each
with the New River Free Press of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and as an assistant editor
with The Asia Foundation, San Francisco.  For sixteen years he worked with Berkeley’s
Center for Independent Living. As a community worker, he has been actively involved
in a variety of areas including the Jobs for Homeless Consortium of Alameda County
which he helped establish in 1988 and look after through mid-2004. For five years
he was a Volunteer In Service To America (VISTA).

Daniels is an alumnus of St. Michael’s High School, Wilson College, University of
Bombay (Department of Economics) and holds a Master’s degree from Northwestern University’s
Medill School of Journalism.

_**About the Book**_
 Michael Chacko Daniels’ magnum opus after a long career of
40 years of writing looks at tensions between immigrant communities in the United
States through the eyes of a newly arrived Indian family. It is set in the 1970s,
yet will resonate with contemporary experiences in, and of, the United States. The
book is written in Daniels’ characteristically but deceptively light style, covering
the racism and capitalism that have often threatened the humanism of America.

A review of the book was brought out by _[The Telegraph, India](https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/risk-at-the-riverside-237747)_.