Brown Women Have Everything
eBook - ePub

Brown Women Have Everything

Essays on (Dis)comfort and Delight

  1. 180 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Brown Women Have Everything

Essays on (Dis)comfort and Delight

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

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Author’s Note
  7. Becoming This Brown Woman, or, Three Glorious Accidents
  8. Mane Story
  9. Rinse, Repeat
  10. Girl in the Rum Barrel
  11. In Case of an Active Shooter
  12. A CafĆ© of One’s Own
  13. Chocolate-Marmalade Green Card
  14. A Tale of Two Chutneys
  15. The Boys of New Delhi: An Essay in Four Hurts
  16. Killer Dinner
  17. Fifteen Notes on a Day Job
  18. Forty Days in Italy
  19. The Church of Santa Maria Nuova
  20. Valentine’s Day: A Fourteen-Point Meditation on Love and Other Fiery Monsters
  21. Stranger, Wonder, Chicago
  22. Nicer in Hindi
  23. Judith and Holofernes
  24. A City in Seven Metaphors
  25. Acknowledgments
  26. Back Cover