Brown Women Have Everything: Essays on (Dis)comfort and Delight

by Sayantani DasGupta

Book Overview

As a child growing up in New Delhi, Sayantani Dasgupta wanted to go on adventures involving shipwrecks and treasure chests. Her parents wanted her to stay in school instead. She satisfied her curiosity by drawing maps, inventing languages with friends, and reading everything: English adventures, Russian folktales, Hindi comics, Bengali ghost stories.

Brown Women Have Everything embraces the same spirit of wonder as we follow Dasgupta,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469681773
• ISBN13: 9781469681771
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"