In Exile: Rupture, Reunion, and My Grandmother's Secret Life by Sadiya Ansari Pa

Description: In Exile by Sadiya Ansari NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Globe 100 Best Book of 2024! In a deeply personal investigation, award-winning journalist Sadiya Ansari takes us across three continents and back a century as she seeks the truth behind a family secret. Why did her grandmother Tahira abandon her seven children to follow a man from Karachi to a tiny village in Punjab? And though she eventually left him, Tahira remained estranged from her children for nearly two decades. Who was she in those years when she was no longer a wife or mother? For Sadiya herself, uninterested in marriage and children, the question begets another: What space is available to women who defy cultural expectations? Through her inquiry, Sadiya discovers what her daadis life was like during that separation and she confronts difficult historical truths: the pervasiveness of child marriage, how Partition made refugees of millions of families like hers, and how the national freedoms achieved in 1947 did not extend to womens lives. She sees the threads of this history woven through each generation after, and finds an unexpected sense of belonging in a culture that, at first blush, shuns women for wanting lives of their own. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Author Biography SADIYA ANSARI is a Pakistani Canadian journalist based in London. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, VICE, Refinery29, Macleans, The Walrus, and the Globe and Mail, among others. She has reported from North America, Asia, and Europe, and her work has changed legislation and won awards. She is co-founder of the Canadian Journalists of Colour, a 2021 R. James Travers Foreign Corresponding Fellow, and a 2023-24 Asper Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia. Review "This biography is not about joyful memories nor a happy ending, but rather an acknowledgment of a womans past leading to a new generations healing and forgiveness in the present." -- BUST"Astounding." -- Globe and Mail"[In Exile] brings the plight of women and refugee families into sharp, empathetic focus." -- Booklist"[A] triumphant debut ... insightful, surprising, and beautifully written." -- Publishers Weekly, Starred ReviewA thoughtful and informative memoir and familial investigation. -- Kirkus Details ISBN1487012373 Author Sadiya Ansari Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781487012373 Format Paperback Country of Publication Canada Audience General Subtitle Rupture, Reunion, and My Grandmothers Secret Life Publication Date 2024-09-26 Pages 232 DEWEY 305.40954552 Publisher House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada Imprint House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada Place of Publication Concord We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161111127;

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