Gopal, a native Indian exchange student, goes to America to study chemical engineering. With his absurd notions of the country, Gopal encounters the travails of shopping in departmental stores, the hazards of bar-hopping and of learning the difference between friendship and love the hard way. A witty and hilarious novel that describes the inevitable clash of cultures faced by the starry - eyed Gopal, and the misunderstandings that arise from it. The Inscrutable Americans captures Gopal’s comic discovery of nineties America.