Olive witch : a memoir / Abeer Y. Hoque.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoque, Abeer Y., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, American--21st century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Manners and customs.

Bangladeshi Americans.

Bangladesh.

Women authors--Biography.

Bangladeshi Americans--Biography.

Emigration and immigration--Psychological aspects.

Hoque, Abeer Y--Childhood and youth.

Pittsburgh (Pa.)--Social life and customs--20th century.

Bangladesh--Social life and customs--20th century.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Poetry.

Nonfiction.

Physical Description:

x, 244 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India : Fourth Estate, 2016.

Summary:

In the 1970s, Nigeria is flush with oil money, building new universities, and hanging on to old colonial habits. Abeer Hoque is a Bangladeshi girl growing up in a small sunlit town, where the red clay earth, corporal punishment and running games are facts of life. At thirteen she moves with her family to suburban Pittsburgh and finds herself surrounded by clouded skies and high schoolers who speak in movie quotes and pop culture slang. Finding her place as a young woman in America proves more difficult than she can imagine. Disassociated from her parents, and laid low by academic pressure and spiralling depression, she is committed to a psychiatric ward in Philadelphia. When she moves to Bangladesh on her own, it proves to be yet another beginning for someone who is only just getting used to being an outsider - wherever she is. Arresting and beautifully written, with poems and weather conditions framing each chapter, Olive Witch is an intimate memoir about taking the long way home.

Notes:

Prose, with poems and weather conditions framing each chapter.

ISBN:

9789351777007

9351777006

OCLC:

936533434

Publisher Number:

99981332781