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What we carry : a memoir

What we carry : a memoir

Book 2021

"Maya Shanbhag Lang grew up idolizing her brilliant mother, an accomplished physician who immigrated to the United States from India. But their relationship is irrevocably altered after Maya's mother develops Alzheimer's. When Maya's mother reveals long-held family secrets, Maya is sent reeling. Absorbing and vulnerable, 'What We Carry' is about mothers and daughters, lies and truths, receiving and giving care, and how we cannot grow up until we...