Thrity N Umrigar
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Binny's class is learning about different holiday traditions, and today it is time for Binny to share the story of her favorite holiday, Diwali, the Festival of Lights--and she even has some special treats to give her classmates. Includes information on the five days of Diwali, what it commemorates, and its special traditions.
Author
Language
English
Description
Bhima, a domestic servant in the household of Sera Dubash, an upper-class Parsi housewife, develops a bond with her employer over the course of many years as they both suffer through abusive marriages, loss, and disappointments, but their friendship still cannot overcome the restrictions of class and money.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Indian American journalist Smita has returned to India to cover a story, but reluctantly: long ago she and her family left the country with no intention of ever coming back. As she follows the case of Meena--a Hindu woman attacked by members of her own village and her own family for marrying a Muslim man--Smita comes face to face with a society where tradition carries more weight than one's own heart, and a story that threatens to unearth the painful...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
viii, 357 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Poor and illiterate, Bhima had faithfully worked for the Dubash family, an upper-middle-class Parsi household, for more than twenty years. Yet after courageously speaking the truth about a heinous crime perpetrated against her own family, the devoted servant was cruelly fired. The sting of that dismissal was made more painful coming from Sera Dubash, the temperamental employer who had long been Bhima's only confidante. A woman who has endured despair...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
viii, 336 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"During a terrible heat wave in 1991--the worst in a decade--ten-year-old Anton has been locked in an apartment in the projects, alone, for seven days, without air conditioning or a fan. With no electricity, the refrigerator and lights do not work. Hot, hungry, and desperate, Anton shatters a window and climbs out. Cutting his leg on the broken glass, he is covered in blood when the police find him. Juanita, his mother, is discovered in a crack house...
Author
Publisher
Harper/HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From Thrity Umrigar, the critically beloved, best-selling author of The World We Found and The Space Between Us comes a profound, heartbreakingly honest novel about the beauty of forgiveness"--
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
308 p. ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
American divorcée Armaiti has six months to live and her last wish is to see her three best friends again--Laleh, Kavita, and Nishta, all in Bombay. But Nishta's husband, Iqbal, a fellow university idealist turned fundamentalist, will be the biggest obstacle to fulfilling Armaiti's final desire
10) Sugar in milk
Author
Publisher
RP Kids
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"A young immigrant girl joins her aunt and uncle in a new country that is unfamiliar to her. She struggles with loneliness, with a fierce longing for the culture and familiarity of home, until one day, her aunt takes her on a walk. As the duo strolls through their city park, the girl's aunt begins to tell her an old myth, and a story within the story begins"--