The atlas of reds and blues
Laskar, Devi S.2020
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This work opens with a woman lying bleeding on her driveway, shot by police. The woman has moved her family to the wealthy suburbs, but once there was met with the same questions: Where are you from? No, where are you really from? The American-born daughter of Bengali immigrant parents, her truthful answer, here, is never enough. The morning that opens 'The Atlas of Red and Blues' is the morning that the woman's simmering anger breaks through. During a baseless and prejudice-driven police raid on her house, she finally refuses to be calm, complacent, and polite. As she lies bleeding on her driveway, her life flashing before her eyes, she struggles to make sense of her past and decipher her present - how did she end up here?
Main title:
The atlas of reds and blues / Devi S. Laskar.
Author:
Laskar, Devi S., author
Imprint:
London : Fleet, 2020.
Collation:
258 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2019.
ISBN:
9780708899342 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
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BRN:
2243437
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