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The atlas of reds and blues / Devi S. Laskar.

The atlas of reds and blues / Devi S. Laskar.
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ISBN 9780708899335 (paperback)
Name Laskar, Devi S. author.
Title The atlas of reds and blues / Devi S. Laskar.
Published London : Fleet, 2019.
©2019
Description 258 pages ; 22 cm.
Summary When a woman - known only as Mother - moves her family from Atlanta to its wealthy suburbs, she discovers that neither the times nor the people have changed since her childhood in a small Southern town. Despite the intervening decades, Mother is met with the same questions: Where are you from? No, where are you really from? The American-born daughter of Bengali immigrants, she finds that her answer - 'Here' - is never enough. Mother's simmering anger breaks through one morning, when, during a violent and unfounded police raid on her home, she finally refuses to be complacent. As she lies bleeding from a gunshot wound, her thoughts race from childhood games with her sister and visits to cousins in India, to her time in the newsroom before having her three daughters, to the early days of her relationship with a husband who now spends more time flying business class than at home. The Atlas of Reds and Blues grapples with the complexities of the second-generation American experience, what it means to be a woman of colour in the workplace, and a sister, a wife, and a mother to daughters in today's America.
Subjects Police shootings -- Fiction
Immigrants -- Fiction
Mothers -- Fiction
Racism -- Fiction
Southern States -- Race relations -- Fiction
Genre Domestic fiction
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