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Cover of But What Will People Say? Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures
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Sahaj Kaur Kohli
“A paradigm-shifting book from therapist and founder of @browngirltherapy, offering powerful insights and guidance for multi-cultural readers to better understand, accept and…
Cover of Burning My Roti: Breaking Barriers as a Queer Indian Woman
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Sharan Dhaliwal
“Part memoir, part guide, Burning My Roti is essential reading for a new generation of South Asian women. With chapters covering sexual and cultural identity, body hair, colourism…
Cover of We Are Not the Others: Reflections of a Transgender Activist
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Kalki Subramaniam
“We Are Not the Others is a strikingly moving book that touches the heart of its readers, and takes them on a furious and empathetic journey into the personal lives of transgender…
Cover of Brown, White, Black: An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion
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Nishta Mehra
“Essays describe how the author’s experiences as an Indian American, the wife of a white Christian woman, and the mother of an adopted black son have been challenged by rigid…
Cover of Not Quite Not White: Losing and Finding Race in America
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Sharmila Sen
“At the age of 12, Sharmila Sen emigrated from India to the U.S. The year was 1982, and everywhere she turned, she was asked to self-report her race: on INS forms, at the doctor’s…
Cover of The God of Small Things
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Arundhati Roy
“In 1969 in Kerala, India, Rahel and her twin brother, Estha, struggle to forge a childhood for themselves amid the destruction of their family life, as they discover that the…
Cover of Joothan
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Omaprakāśa Vālmīki, Arun Prabha Mukherjee
“Omprakash Valmiki’s Joothan, an autobiographical account of his birth and upbringing as an untouchable, or Dalit, in the newly independent India of the 1950s, is one of the first…