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Fasting, feasting / Anita Desai.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
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Field name	Details
ISBN	0618065822
ISBN	9780618065820
Name	Desai, Anita, 1937-
Title	Fasting, feasting / Anita Desai.
Published	New York : Houghton Mifflin, 2000
Description	[228] p. ; 21 cm.
Notes	"A mariner original."
Summary	"'Fasting, Feasting' takes on Desai's greatest theme: the intricate, delicate web of family conflict. It tells the moving story of Uma, the plain older daughter of an Indian family, tied to the household of her childhiood and tending to her parents' every extravagant demand, and of her younger brother, Arun, across the world in Massachusetts, bewildered by his new life in the suburbs. As Francine Prose wrote in the New York Times Book Review, "'Fasting, Feasting' makes the apparently exotic destinies of Uma, Arun and their family seem as universal, as vital and familiar, as the food on our plates." From the overpowering warmth of Indian culture to the cool center of the American family, it captures the physical and emotional fasting and feasting that define two distinct cultures." -- Back cover
Subjects	East Indian students -- Massachusetts -- Fiction
	Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
	Young women -- Fiction
	Massachusetts -- Fiction
	India -- Fiction
Genre	Domestic fiction
Genre	Bildungsromane
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Bildungsromane . Brothers and sisters -- Fiction . Domestic fiction . East Indian students -- Massachusetts -- Fiction . India -- Fiction . Massachusetts -- Fiction . Young women -- Fiction . Authors: Desai, Anita, 1937- .