This elegant young adult novel captures the immigrant experience for one Indian-American family with humor and heart. Told in alternating teen voices across three generations, _You Bring the Distant Near_ explores sisterhood, first loves, friendship, and the inheritance of culture--for better or wor
You Bring the Distant Near
✍ Scribed by Perkins, Mitali
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 178 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0374304904
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✦ Synopsis
This elegant young adult novel captures the immigrant experience for one Indian-American family with humor and heart. Told in alternating teen voices across three generations, You Bring the Distant Near explores sisterhood, first loves, friendship, and the inheritance of culture--for better or worse.
From a grandmother worried that her children are losing their Indian identity to a daughter wrapped up in a forbidden biracial love affair to a granddaughter social-activist fighting to preserve Bengali tigers, award-winning author Mitali Perkins weaves together the threads of a family growing into an American identity.
Here is a sweeping story of five women at once intimately relatable and yet entirely new.
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