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First darling of the morning selected memories of an Indian childhood

This book is the powerful and poignant memoir of bestselling author Thrity Umrigar, tracing the arc of her Bombay childhood and adolescence from her earliest memories to her eventual departure for the United States at age twenty-one. It is an evocative, emotionally charged story of a young life stee...

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Main Author: Umrigar, Thrity N.
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Harper Perennial, [2008], ©2004.
Edition:1st U.S. ed.
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Umrigar, Thrity N.
Mumbai (India) > Biography.
Authors, American > Biography.
Parsees > Biography.
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Summary:This book is the powerful and poignant memoir of bestselling author Thrity Umrigar, tracing the arc of her Bombay childhood and adolescence from her earliest memories to her eventual departure for the United States at age twenty-one. It is an evocative, emotionally charged story of a young life steeped in paradox; of a middle-class Parsi girl attending Catholic school in a predominantly Hindu city; of a guilt-ridden stranger in her own land, an affluent child in a country mired in abysmal poverty. She reveals intimate secrets and offers an unflinching look at family issues once considered unspeakable as she interweaves two fascinating coming-of-age stories:one of a small child, and one of a nation.
Item Description:"First published in India by HarperCollins in 2004"--Title page verso.
"Includes P.S. insights, interviews and more"--Page 4 of cover.
Physical Description:294, 18 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:9780061451614 (pbk.)
0061451614 (pbk.)
Author Notes:Thrity Umrigar is an Indian-American writer, who was born in Mumbai. She received her Bachelors of Science from Bombay University. She immigrated to the United States when she was 21.She then went on to earn her M.A. From Ohio State and her Phd from Kent State University. She is a journalist and the author of the novels Bombay Time, The Space Between Us and The Weight of Heaven. She has written for the Washington Post, Cleveland Plain Dealer, among other newspapers, and regularly writes for The Boston Globe 's book pages. She is currently assistant professor of English at Case Western Reserve University where she teaches creative writing and literature. She was a winner of the Nieman Fellowship to Harvard University. She has a Ph.D. in English and lives in Cleveland, Ohio. Her title Space Between Us made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2011.

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