Five girls. Three generations. One great American love story.
You Bring the Distant Near
A novel by Mitali Perkins
October 25, 2023 1pm at the library
Copies of the book and audiobook (CDs) available at the library.
Plan to buy a copy? Gibson's and Main St. Bookends will honor a discount if you purchase the book at either place and tell them it's for this group. You can also buy the streaming audiobook from Gibson's or Audible, etc.
From the publisher:
This elegant novel captures the immigrant experience for one Indian-American family with humor and heart. Told in alternating 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 social-activist granddaughter, award-winning author Mitali Perkins weaves together the threads of a family growing into an American identity.
Additional Resources (check back for more):
- The author reading a selection from the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbjrjCVBrJk
- The author's website https://www.mitaliperkins.com/p/about-me.html
- Crash course on the Partition of India https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrcCTgwbsjc
Read more...
- Inter-generational novels Check out this list... https://tolstoytherapy.com/multi-generational-books/
- Stories about the Partition of India https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/12436.Books_about_the_Indian_Subcontinental_Partition_fiction_and_nonfiction_
- Midnights Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition
by Nisid Hajari [on audiobook here at the library] - About Rabindranath Tagore, writer and Nobel Prize winner for Literature in 1913
- about a Bangladesh to London immigrant experience in the 2003 novel Brick Lane by Monica Ali [we have a copy at the library]
