
- 180 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
As a child growing up in New Delhi, Sayantani Dasgupta wanted to go on adventures involving shipwrecks and treasure chests. Her parents wanted her to stay in school instead. She satisfied her curiosity by drawing maps, inventing languages with friends, and reading everything: English adventures, Russian folktales, Hindi comics, Bengali ghost stories.
Brown Women Have Everything embraces the same spirit of wonder as we follow Dasgupta, now living and teaching in the United States, to cathedrals in Italy, pirate graveyards in North Carolina, hair salons in Idaho, her aunt’s kitchen in Bangladesh, graffiti-lined streets of Colombia, the hierarchical world of academia, and her marriage to a handsome Sikh. As she moves through the world, she examines issues of the body, violence, travel, and belonging with a mix of humor, joy, pride, and outrage. While the eighteen interwoven essays in this collection call out bigotry, bias, and othering, they ultimately celebrate the ties that bind our disparate, global lives together.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Authorās Note
- Becoming This Brown Woman, or, Three Glorious Accidents
- Mane Story
- Rinse, Repeat
- Girl in the Rum Barrel
- In Case of an Active Shooter
- A CafĆ© of Oneās Own
- Chocolate-Marmalade Green Card
- A Tale of Two Chutneys
- The Boys of New Delhi: An Essay in Four Hurts
- Killer Dinner
- Fifteen Notes on a Day Job
- Forty Days in Italy
- The Church of Santa Maria Nuova
- Valentineās Day: A Fourteen-Point Meditation on Love and Other Fiery Monsters
- Stranger, Wonder, Chicago
- Nicer in Hindi
- Judith and Holofernes
- A City in Seven Metaphors
- Acknowledgments
- Back Cover