You Have Given Me a Country: A Memoir
A India, Nonfiction, Biography book. A fantastic and moving portrait -- gorgeously written and exquisitely felt -- of what it means to...
2010 ForeWord Book of the Year, EssaySilver Medalist, 2011 IPPY Awards in Multi-Cultural Adult Fiction2011 American Book Award“Vaswani is a confident writer whose unflinching eye shows the reader the beauty grounded in the mundane.”San Francisco Chronicle“Vaswani’s voice is witty, sharp, innovative, unique.”Chitra BanerjeeYou Have Given Me a Country is an emotionally powerful exploration of blurred borders, identity, and what it means to be multicultural. Combining memoir, history, and fiction, the book follows the paths of the author's Irish-Catholic mother and Sindhi-Indian father on their journey toward each other and the biracial child they create. Neela Vaswani's second full-length work thematically echoes such books as The Color of Water, Running in the Family, or Motiba's Tatoos, but it is entirely unique in approach, voice, and story. The book reveals the self as a culmination of all that went before it, a brilliant new weave of two varied,...
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Neela Vaswani's "real and imagined" memoir is a tour-de-force of one woman's struggle with (and celebration of) her mixed identity. Vaswani takes us inside her struggle and celebration with lyrical and highly descriptive writing. Mixing personal narrative, imagined moments, historical facts, and her own journey from little girl to new... The author of this book, Neela Vaswani, writes about her life, her parents and grandparents. What makes it special is that her mother is Irish-Catholic and her father Sindhi-Indian. Who is she? Which culture does she belong to? What is it like to belong to two cultures, and not just two cultures but many, many cultures? The setting... A fantastic and moving portrait -- gorgeously written and exquisitely felt -- of what it means to be a young girl navigating biracial and bicultural lines in 20th century American and India. Vaswani is a generous and compassionate writer who holds your hand while holding the people in her story accountable. Vivid, fresh, and true, this...