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Title: Beloved Strangers( A Memoir) <>Binding: Hardcover <>Author: MariaChaudhuri <>Publisher: BloomsburyPublishingPLC
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Maria Chaudhuri was born and raised in Bangladesh. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Religion from Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College, Vermont. Her essays, features and short stories have been published in various collections, journals and literary magazines. She lives in Hong Kong.
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*Starred Review* How much can we ever know about those we’re closest to? In this exquisite memoir, Chaudhuri explores her past—both growing up in Bangladesh and her new life in New England—with great insight and empathy for those close to her. Her distant and fiercely religious father is felt mostly through his absence in their daily lives, while her mother mourns the glittering life of stardom she feels her singing talents should have brought her. The young Maria responds to her uncertainty and unhappiness by trying desperately to create order, acting out in numerous small ways. As she grows, she is stifled in her own singing aspirations, and her insecurities lead her to an unhappy marriage. Her recollections thrum with emotion, and her depictions of those in this complex web of relationships are nuanced and well balanced. Deep currents of family and home, and the meaning of those essential words, flow through every scene. Chaudhuri has created a contemplative examination of how her origins influenced the person she grew to be, and how sometimes it’s only possible to know someone by letting them go. --Bridget Thoreson
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- PublisherBloomsburyPublishingPLC
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1408844605
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. A bright and brilliant new voice from Bangladesh'Moving, lyrical and curious this memoir effortlessly captures the disorientating feeling of growing up in a world that misunderstands you' RedOn and on we dream, we wish, we love no matter that the dreams come to an end, the wishes evolve or that love dissipates like dust in the wind. Perhaps, what matters only is that we have lived long enough to dream, hard enough to wish and indisputably enough to love.One of Marias early memories growing up in Dhaka is of planning to run away with her friend Nadia. Even then, Maria couldnt quite figure out why she longed to escape.It is not that home is an unhappy place. It's just that in her family, joy is ephemeral. With a mother who yearns for the mountains, the solitude and freedom to pursue her own dreams and career, and a charismatic but distant father who finds it difficult to expresses emotion, they are never able to hold on to happiness for very long.Maria studies the Holy Book, says her daily prayers and wonders if God is watching her. She dreams, like her mother, of unstitching the seam of her life. It is her neighbour, Bablu, the Imitator of Frogs, who both excites and repulses Maria by showing her a yellowing pornographic magazine, but it is Mala, a girl her own age who comes to work in their house, whose wise eyes and wicked smile makes her dizzy with longing. When she moves to New England for university at eighteen Maria meets Yameen, a man who lives in a desperately squalid apartment in Jersey City, woos her with phone calls and a marathon night of drinking in New York bars, and is not what he seemsFrom Dhaka to New York, this is a candid and moving account of growing up and growing away, a meditation on why people leave their homes and why they sometimes find it difficult to return. Beloved Strangers is an unforgettable memoir marking the arrival of a brilliant new voice from Bangladesh. "First published in Great Britain in 2014"--Title page verso. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781408844601
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