The House of Fathepore
As a teenage girl, author Shazia Bajwa faced some challenging times, and she chronicled those events in The House of Fathepore. Based on Bajwa’s diary entries, this memoir captures her coming-of-age experience as a teenage Indian-American girl and tells how her American upbringing and lifestyle choices clashed with her parents’ traditional Indian cultural views. In this narrative, she recalls how the problem began when her parents prepared for her next rite of passage: marriage. She discusses how she couldn’t understand how her parents could choose a life partner for her when they didn’t know her wishes. Her fate was sealed when her parents took her with them on an international flight to their ancestral village in India. Bajwa shares she didn’t want to marry a stranger as tradition dictated. In the end, both parents and daughter are transformed as they rediscovered their kinship ties. Offering a glimpse into Muslim life and culture, The House of Fathepore addresses the challenges a young girl faces in carrying out the role expected of a daughter in a traditional Pakistani household.
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The House of Fathepore
As a teenage girl, author Shazia Bajwa faced some challenging times, and she chronicled those events in The House of Fathepore. Based on Bajwa’s diary entries, this memoir captures her coming-of-age experience as a teenage Indian-American girl and tells how her American upbringing and lifestyle choices clashed with her parents’ traditional Indian cultural views. In this narrative, she recalls how the problem began when her parents prepared for her next rite of passage: marriage. She discusses how she couldn’t understand how her parents could choose a life partner for her when they didn’t know her wishes. Her fate was sealed when her parents took her with them on an international flight to their ancestral village in India. Bajwa shares she didn’t want to marry a stranger as tradition dictated. In the end, both parents and daughter are transformed as they rediscovered their kinship ties. Offering a glimpse into Muslim life and culture, The House of Fathepore addresses the challenges a young girl faces in carrying out the role expected of a daughter in a traditional Pakistani household.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781475930528 |
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| Publisher: | iUniverse, Incorporated |
| Publication date: | 11/07/2012 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 118 |
| File size: | 236 KB |
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