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Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents
por Hajratwala, Minal
- Usado
- Condição
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0618251294
- ISBN 13
- 9780618251292
- Livreiro
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Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Used - Good. . Former Library book.. All orders guaranteed and ship within 24 hours. Your purchase supports More Than Words, a nonprofit job training program for youth, empowering youth to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business.
Sinopse
An inspiring personal saga that explores the collisions of choice and history that led one unforgettable family to become immigrants In this groundbreaking work,Minal Hajratwala mixes history,memoir, and reportage to explore the questions facing not only her own Indian family but that of every immigrant:Where did we come from?Why did we leave? What did we give up and gain in the process? Beginning with her great-grandfather Motiram’s original flight from British-occupied India to Fiji, where he rose from tailor to department store mogul,Hajratwala follows her ancestors across the twentieth century to explain how they came to be spread across five continents and nine countries. As she delves into the relationship between personal choice and the great historical forces—British colonialism, apartheid,Gandhi’s Salt March, and American immigration policy—that helped to shape her family’s experiences, Hajratwala brings to light for the very first time the story of the Indian diaspora. This luminous narrative by a child of immigrants offers a deeply intimate look at what it means to call more than one part of the world home. Leaving India should find its place alongside Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family and Daniel Mendelsohn’s The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million.
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- Livreiro
- More Than Words Inc.
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- WAL-T-5c-00722
- Título
- Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents
- Autor
- Hajratwala, Minal
- Estado do livro
- Used - Good
- Encadernação
- Trade Cloth
- ISBN 10
- 0618251294
- ISBN 13
- 9780618251292
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Local de publicação
- Boston
- Esta edição foi publicada pela primeira vez
- 2009-03-18
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More Than Words Inc.
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Waltham, Massachusetts
Sobre More Than Words Inc.
More Than Words empowers youth who are in foster care, court-involved, homeless or out of school to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business. MTW believes that when system-involved youth are challenged with authentic and increasing responsibilities in a business setting, and are given high expectations and a culture of support, they can and will address personal barriers to success, create concrete action plans for their lives, and become contributing members of society. More Than Words began as an online bookselling training program for youth in DCF custody in 2004 and opened its vibrant bookstore on Moody St in Waltham in 2005 and added its Starbucks coffee bar in 2008. MTW replicated its model in the South End of Boston in 2011, thereby doubling the number of youth served annually.
