Length3h 40m
About this audiobook
A warm, funny, deeply human memoir about the friendships that turn a foreign country into a home.
Peter O'Neil swore he'd visit India "next lifetime." Then a teaching job opened in New Delhi, and he went. Chai & Chapati is the story of the two years that followed, and the people who carried him: the five Kasana cousins who folded a lone American into their family; the drivers who read the city for him; and Krishan, reserved and unforgettable, the deepest friendship he never learned to name. Across weddings in the Punjab, temples grand and humble, and kitchens where he learns to make masala chai and chapati, O'Neil writes about caste, faith, and being befriended as a gay man far from home. A companion to his Cameroon memoir, A Place Set for Me, it's a book about the oldest surprise there is: being received, wholly, by people whose lives look nothing like your own.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, Travel
Length3 hrs 40 mins
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateAug 26, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Title
13Eleven. A Piece of Every State
2Dedication
14Twelve. Much Is Given
3One. The Phone Call
15Thirteen. A Hand’s Breadth
4Two. The Closed Zoo
16Fourteen. No Chapati?
5Three. Peter, For You
17Fifteen. Two Temples
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6Four. The Ledger
18Sixteen. Into the Unknown
7Five. Mr. Singh
19Seventeen. What I Brought Home
8Six. The Village
20Chai and Chapati at Home
9Seven. A Connecticut Ballroom
21A Few Things to Carry Home
10Eight. A Week Without Walls
22About the Author
11Nine. Arjan’s Hair
23Also by Peter O’Neil
12Ten. Uncle Raja’s House
24Chapter 24
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