The Braided Tongue

by Roshni Rustomji

Fiction. Asian American Studies. "A high-speed novel as brilliantly colored as a Mexican tapestry"--Meena Alexander. Plagued by vague but painful memories of her renegade father and her childhood in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1894770072
• ISBN13: 9781894770071
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Tsar Publications
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

The Braided Tongue

I didn't know that camels menstruate...and the Virgen La Soledad in Oaxaca was missing her legs...I couldn't put this book down. The story of Katy Cooper's search for her real parents takes her from California to India to Oaxaca,Mexico and in the meantime her journey takes twists and turns that focus on the stories of the other women who accompany her search. The storytelling is seamless even as the author weaves three and four different stories in one telling. I like the voices,laughter, sadness, secrets, childhood memories, and the ghosts. The stories are historical:lives torn apart by the partition of India and Pakistan, the colonization of India, the migration from Mexico to El Norte, the diaspora of peoples as told in the fate of a family sari. But in this novel, the author conveys that history need not be overdeterministic and the gift of storytelling can create new worlds, heal old wounds, and foster hope.