You bring the distant near / Mitali Perkins.
By: Perkins, Mitali [author.].
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: First edition.Description: 303 pages ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780374304904; 0374304904; 1250233860; 9781250233868.Subject(s): East Indian American women -- Juvenile fiction | East Indian Americans -- Juvenile fiction | Immigrants -- Juvenile fiction | Families -- New York (State) -- New York -- Juvenile fiction | Family life -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction | East Indian Americans -- Fiction | Immigrants -- Fiction | YOUNG ADULT FICTION -- Family -- Multigenerational | YOUNG ADULT FICTION -- Humorous | YOUNG ADULT FICTION -- Social Themes -- Emigration & Immigration | East Indian American women | East Indian Americans | Families | Immigrants | East Indian American women -- Fiction | East Indian Americans -- Fiction | Families -- New York -- Fiction | Immigrants -- Fiction | New York (N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction | New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction | New York (State) -- New YorkGenre/Form: Young adult fiction. | Young adult. | Young adult works. | Domestic fiction. | Fiction. | Juvenile works. | Young adult fiction. | Domestic fiction.Additional physical formats: Online version:: You bring the distant near.Item type | Current library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book - Paperback | South County | Fiction | Young Adult | Y Per (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 05000010989601 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A 2017 National Book Award Longlist Title with six starred reviews
A School Library Journal's Best Books of 2017
A New York City Public Library's Notable 50 Best Books for Teens
2018 South Asia Book Award Winner
2018 White Ravens Award Winner
A Louisiana Readers' Choice Award Nominee
This elegant young adult novel captures the immigrant experience for one Indian-American family with humor and heart. Told in alternating teen voices across three generations, You Bring the Distant Near explores sisterhood, first loves, friendship, and the inheritance of culture--for better or worse.
From a grandmother worried that her children are losing their Indian identity to a daughter wrapped up in a forbidden biracial love affair to a granddaughter social-activist fighting to preserve Bengali tigers, award-winning author Mitali Perkins weaves together the threads of a family growing into an American identity.
Here is a sweeping story of five women at once intimately relatable and yet entirely new.
Race at the British Club 1965 -- 1. Strangers 1973-74 -- Sonia: Home is where the stories are -- Tara: Marcia Magic -- Sonia: The queen of bargaining -- Sonia: Fire escape -- Tara: Flushing forever -- Tara: Star quality -- 2. Travelers 1976-81 -- Sonia: A daughter for life -- Sonia: Liberation -- Tara: Land where my fathers died -- No translation -- 3. Settlers 1998-2006 -- Chantal: New rules -- Anna: United cousins of Carver school -- Chantal: The Porsche factor -- Anna: Off the deep end -- No dot-com needed.
From 1965 through the present, an Indian American family adjusts to life in New York City, alternately fending off and welcoming challenges to their own traditions.
Ranee worries that her children are losing their Indian culture. Sonia is wrapped up in a forbidden biracial love affair. Tara seeks the limelight to hide her true self. Shanti desperately tries to make peace in the family. Anna fights to preserve Bengal tigers and her Bengali identity. As each Das woman decides which Bengali traditions to uphold in America, one hard truth remains: some scars take generations to heal.
"Five girls. Three generations. One great American love story. You Bring the Distant Near explores sisterhood, first loves, friendship, and the inheritance of culture--for better or worse. Ranee, worried that her children are losing their Indian culture; Sonia, wrapped up in a forbidden biracial love affair; Tara, seeking the limelight to hide her true self; Shanti, desperately trying to make peace in the family; Anna, fighting to preserve Bengal tigers and her Bengali identity--award-winning author Mitali Perkins weaves together a sweeping story of five women at once intimately relatable and yet entirely new."
HL720L Lexile.
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Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.9 9 192420.
National Book Award Nominee for Young People's Literature, 2017.
School Library Journal's Best Books, 2017