Outside women : a novel / Roohi Choudhry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Choudhry, Roohi, 1978- author.

Series:

University Press of Kentucky new poetry and prose series

University Press of Kentucky new poetry & prose

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women, East Indian--Fiction.

Women, East Indian.

East Indian Americans--Fiction.

East Indian Americans.

Immigrants--Fiction.

Immigrants.

New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

New York (N.Y.).

Genre:

Novels.

Physical Description:

266 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2025]

Summary:

"Would you risk your own life to pursue justice for a stranger? Two migrant women-separated by geographies and generations-face this same devastating choice. Lured away from her home in 1890s India, Sita is brought to South Africa as an indentured servant-one among millions funneled by the British to replace the recently abolished slave trade. One hundred years later, Hajra, a Pakistani scholar, is forced to flee her home in Peshawar after witnessing a violent act meant to target her. In New York City, she loses herself in academic research until she comes face-to-face with a photo of a laughing, defiant young woman brandishing a banner in protest. Inexorably drawn to this woman, Hajra travels to South Africa to learn more and unknowingly traces Sita's path. With raw imagery and rich sensory detail, Roohi Choudhry's incandescent debut novel Outside Women intertwines the narratives of two women painfully yet valiantly carving their existences outside of patriarchal and colonial spaces as they search for kinship and strength in solidarity"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781985901964

198590196X

9781985901971

1985901978

OCLC:

1435616886