Fasting, feasting.
Fasting, feasting.
By
:
Desai, Anita, 1937-
Publication Date
:
1999
Subject Term
:
Families -- Fiction.
Manners and customs -- Fiction.
Geographic Term
:
India -- Fiction.
Summary
:
Uma, the plain, older daughter still lives at home, frustrated in her attempts to escape and make a life for herself. Her Indian family is difficult , demanding but mostly, good hearted. Despite her disappointments, Uma comes through as the survivor, avoiding an unfulfilling marriage, liek her sister's or a suicidal one, like that arranged for her pretty cousin. And in America, where young Arun goes as a student, men in the suburbs char hunks of bleeding meat while the women don't appear to cook or eat at all - seems bewildering and terriying to the young Indian adolescent far from home.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9780099284727
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Status |
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St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH) | ADULT FIC - BASEMENT | Adult Fiction - Basement | FIC DES | Checked In |