Breaking Out
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- Synopsis
- Padma Desai grew up in the 1930s in the provincial world of Surat, India, where shehad a sheltered and strict upbringing in a traditional Gujarati Anavil Brahmin family. Her academicbrilliance won her a scholarship to Bombay University, where the first heady taste of freedom in thebig city led to tragic consequences -- seduction by a fellow student whom she was then compelled tomarry. In a failed attempt to end this disastrous first marriage, she converted toChristianity. A scholarship to America in 1955 launched her on her long journey toliberation from the burdens and constraints of her life in India. With a growing self-awareness andtransformation at many levels, she made a new life for herself, met and married the celebratedeconomist Jagdish Bhagwati, became a mother, and rose to academic eminence at Harvard andColumbia. How did she navigate the tumultuous road to assimilation in Americansociety and culture? And what did she retain of her Indian upbringing in the process? This brave andmoving memoir -- written with a novelist's skill at evoking personalities, places, and atmosphere,and a scholar's insights into culture and society, community, and family -- tells a compelling andthought-provoking human story that will resonate with readers everywhere.
- Copyright:
- 2012
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780262019972
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- Date of Addition:
- 09/16/13
- Copyrighted By:
- Padma Desai
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.