This chapter focuses on Amitav Ghosh's relationship to the United States and its role in the Anglophone Empire. It explores Ghosh's problematic relationship with the United States, asking how his hemispheric writing continues to extend and even alter the terrain often associated with Asian American literature. In terms of the Bengali American grain, Ghosh's writing sits both within and outside the Asian American literature. Gosh work is much less invested in the United States and the realities of Indian American experience in the United States than the writing of Mukherjee, Lahiri, or Divakaruni. Ghosh's treatment of West Bengal is more historicized and ecocritical and more comfortable with contemporary Bengali realities than the writing. The need to believe in a wider Indianness is driven both by the horrors of religiously motivated civil violence in India and by a more utopian desire to get past ethnic, caste, and societal divisions.