You Have Given Me a Country by Neela Vaswani

“Here, at last, is Lord of the Flies for girls. “If Lord of the Flies met Gossip Girl and spawned a first-rate book, filled with adventure and moving, surprising struggles against Nature and our nature, Damselfly would be it.” –Neela Vaswani, author o You Have Given Me a Country and Same Sun Here Terrors of a dark jungle night and a group of classmates’ eroding humanity keep the reader transfixed and transported.” “Who are we when we are only accountable to ourselves? In the gripping Damselfly-a Lord of the Flies for the digital age-Prasad’s characters are stripped of every trapping of civilization. –Marina Budhos, author of Watched and Ask Me No Questions A brave take on teen cruelty, identity, mixed race, class and survival.” 'Sobre este título' puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.“Chandra Prasad give us a terrifying, modern-day Lord of the Flies, rendered in exquisite and exacting prose.

Henry Prize, her fiction and nonfiction have been widely anthologized and published in journals such as Epoch, Shenandoah, and Prairie Schooner. Neela Vaswani is the author of the short story collection Where the Long Grass Bends (Sarabande Books, 2004). The book reveals the self as a culmination of all that went before it, a brilliant new weave of two varied, yet ultimately universal backgrounds that spans continents, generations, languages, wars, and, at the center of it all, family. Neela Vaswani's second full-length work thematically echoes such books as The Color of Water, Running in the Family, or Motiba's Tatoos, but it is entirely unique in approach, voice, and story. Combining memoir, history, and fiction, the book follows the paths of the author's Irish-Catholic mother and Sindhi-Indian father on their journey toward each other and the biracial child they create. You Have Given Me a Country is an emotionally powerful exploration of blurred borders, identity, and what it means to be multicultural.

?Vaswani’s voice is witty, sharp, innovative, unique.”Chitra Banerjee ?Vaswani is a confident writer whose unflinching eye shows the reader the beauty grounded in the mundane.” San Francisco Chronicle Silver Medalist, 2011 IPPY Awards in Multi-Cultural Adult Fiction

You Have Given Me a Country by Neela Vaswani