Spanning across generations, 'You Bring the Distant Near' is a young adult novel that beautifully encapsulates the Indian-American immigrant experience. Through alternating voices of women from a single family, the story delves into themes of cultural identity, sisterhood, and the trials of love. As a grandmother fears the loss of cultural roots, a young woman grapples with the complexities of a biracial romance, and a passionate granddaughter champions the fight to save Bengali tigers. Mitali Perkins crafts a narrative that is at once a poignant reflection on identity and an illumination of the various ways one can be American.