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Bird milk & mosquito bones : a memoir

Bird milk & mosquito bones : a memoir

Mattoo, Priyanka, author.
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"Priyanka Mattoo was born into a wooden house in the Himalayas, as were most of her ancestors. In 1989, however, mounting violence in the region forced Mattoo's community to flee. The home into which her family poured their dreams was reduced to a pile of rubble. Mattoo never moved back to her beloved Kashmir-because it no longer existed. She and her family just kept packing and unpacking and moving on. In forty years, Mattoo accumulated thirty-t...

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ISBN:
9780593320389
0593320387
Edition:
First edition
Description:
x, 292 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:
Goddess of destruction
Such a nice face
Dotted lines
A remarkably self-assured debut
On language
You are my life
Sibling revelry
Sixteen kitchens
I'll show you
A good match
Basherte
Bildungsroman
Mother sauces
A toothache
Fed is best
How to be alone
American sigh
Lo sandwich
Dance yourself clean
Phantom threads
The last frontier of the American Dream
The culture
Astrocartography
Some else's spiders
LCCN:
2023021183
Control Number:
3320091
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