The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Initially the pair of women are predictable in their actions and thoughts but it is not long before we see them each being affected by the other. Recent titles from Unsolicited Press are the moon won’t be dared, a poetry collection, October 2021, and a winter night, a novel, released in March 2021.

Meandering through a supermarket highway of camembert and baguettes, Priya Joi heard a heart-stopping confession about her daughter's identity that made her entire being implode like a dying star. In many ways it makes her much happier; the only problem is that in doing so she's doing exactly to her daughter-in-law what was done to her - imposing her preferences and wants because it's a social and cultural norm in India. A story of friendship and self-discovery told from the point of view of alternating characters, Rachel and Swarti.An intimate exploration of a complex and difficult relationship between two women from very different cultures. Though he pulls no punches about the sufferings of his family, he eschews the “victim” posturing familiar in emigrant stories, mentioning in passing, for example, that some of his Turkish neighbours were expelled from Lesvos (Midilli) by the Greek government in 1955. But as this beautiful dual narrative book so eloquently displays, they are experiencing the same things, just in their own ways. Savageau’s “unhistory” tells the stories of her people without privileging the moment of contact with Europe as the defining moment for viewing the culture.

Thanks to Netgalley and HarperCollinsPublishers for an advanced ecopy in exchange for an honest, fair review.He’d had a run-in with Garrett Fain, owner of Westridge Winery over how he disposed of his grape pomace. She has freelanced for The Guardian, BBC and Médecins Sans Frontières, and has chaired and spoken at science conferences.

Then cultural expectations, language barriers and mounting loneliness start revealing all the voids that can’t easily be filled. While filling out this form is not a guarantee you will receive a review/exam copy, we are happy to consider your request. Mother Land is a minutely remembered description of a childhood on an Aegean island, marked by the furious opposition of hostile yet neighbouring cultures.

Swati, Dhruv's mother, sees a new way of life in the relationship her son has with his wife so she decides to leave her husband and be able to live life the way she wants to. Yes, she was ready for her new adventure, she loved exploring the city, she loved posting pictures on Instagram but why did she “romanticize” the days of India’s slavery?