The Shah family moves to the exclusive and fictional town of Pacific Hills, CA after years of hard work to give their family an even better life. Little do they realize their 12 year old son (on the spectrum) is flying a drone in an airport space and gets accosted by police and arrested. They question their influence vs being targeted for their unfamiliar nationality. Their children struggle to adapt in a world with higher stakes.

I listened to this and felt for the family. In a world where you don’t ever know how things could go, it felt plausible to me.

“His father had always spoken of America with starry eyes, his reverence based entirely on the foreign customers he'd served at the sari emporium. Must be a great country, were even a humble farmer can rise to become president or a billionaire, he would say. Ashok's family came from a rural area of Ma-harashtra, six hundred kilometers from Mumbai. For generations, his relatives had toiled as manual laborers, constricted by the caste into which they'd been born.” Ch 5

"All this stuff didn't matter in the end, did it?" she said. "This big house? The fancy neigh-borhood? All that mattered was the color of Ajay's skin and whatever assumptions those cops made about it." She watched for his response, but her father just stood there, swirling the scotch over ice in his glass.
"God, you are such a hypocrite," she said. "You're happy to be a minority when it suits you. How many contracts have you gotten for being a minority-owned business, huh?” Ch 32

“And then he recalled what Vikram had said over cocktails at the fire pit-that no one willingly gives up their place of privilege for someone new-words that now took on new meaning.” Ch 37