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Almost Home: Finding a Place in the World from Kashmir to New York | Githa Hariharan
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In essays that bespeak a thoroughly cosmopolitan sensibility, Githa Hariharan not only takes us on illuminating tours through cities rich in history, but gives a voice to urban people from all over the worldKashmir, Palestine, Delhitrying to live with basic human dignity under circumstances of dire repression or crushing poverty. JM Coetzee What does a medieval city in South India have in common with Washington D.C.? How do people in Kashmir imagine the freedom they long for? To whom does Delhi, city of grand monuments and hidden slums, actually belong? And what makes a city, or any place, home? In ten intricately carved essays, renowned author Githa Hariharan tackles these questions and takes readers on an eye-opening journey across time and place, exploring the history, landscape, and people that have shaped the worlds most fascinating and fraught cities. Inspired by Italo Calvinos playful and powerful writing about journeys and cities, Harihan combines memory, cultural criticism, and history to sculpt fascinating, layered stories about the places around the worldfrom Delhi, Mumbai, and Kashmir to Palestine, Algeria, and eleventhcentury Crdoba, from Tokyo to New York and Washington. In narrating the lives of these places vanquished and marginalized, she plumbs the depths of colonization and nationbuilding, poverty and war, the fight for human rights and the day-to-day business of survival.
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While is was in library school, I made desserts at this tearoom in a tiny Indiana town for one of my jobs. I could make whatever I wanted as long as I made enough for 250 people a day, made enough strawberry pizza (our specialty), and two lemon meringue pies on Thursdays for this one older customer. I just used a recipe from it this weekend! #cookbooklove #jennybakes

LeahBergen Ooo! ❤️ 8y
Lynnsoprano Great history 💕 8y
Donna_sBookMinute Great memory. 8y
MrBook #NoTotsNotACookbook!!! 😂👏🏻 8y
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I loved this book of essays about the meaning of home, especially as Hariharan travels the globe and examines political and social issues in depth.

ramyasbookshelf Definitely want to read this one swapna! 9y
ModernGypsy Sounds interesting!! 8y
iamjane.de That's a nice picture! 8y
skrishna @JulieGilmore Thank you! 8y
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"Home is like family. You can't bear it when others can see their warts and point them out. But you, you can see them bigger and uglier than they are. And because home is like family, you can take its better features for granted.

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"But data does not have a human face. Nor doesn't have a voice that rises in anger and breaks with sadness."

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"Once there was; or once I saw, I loved. And later? Now? Cities don't stand still, even for old flames. When you meet a city again, there is an awkward reunion. You have to relearn its body, see it with two competing eyes, past and present."

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Starting a new read on a Friday!!!! 😱🎉❤️🍺📚