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This title in other formats:Daughter of the Ganges: A Memoirby Asha Miro
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:A moving and emotional story about one girl's adoption While growing up in an Indian orphanage, Asha Miró dreamed of someday being adopted. Her wish finally came true, but only at the misfortune of another. When Asha was six, a Catalan family was in the process of adopting twins but one of the children suddenly fell ill and died. This twist of fate led the family to adopt Asha instead. Leaving a life of poverty behind, Asha was given a second chance. Twenty-one years later, Asha takes a heart-wrenching trip back to India to uncover her native roots. Full of unexpected encounters, this adventure informs and touches Asha beyond her expectations. She visits her old orphanage, speaks with her former caretakers, explores the land that she might not have ever left, and comes to form a more solid identity. Yet one trip is not enough. Eight years later she returns. This time she journeys to the small rural village where she was born. As well as uncovering the details behind her adoption, she finds the only living member of her immediate Indian family: a sister she never knew she had. Review:"This memoir is an assemblage of two books chronicling Mir's first trips back to her native land of India since being adopted in Barcelona at the age of six in 1974. Mir (who works on cultural documentaries) begins with her only memory of India — a Christian orphanage in Bombay — interspersed with her adoptive mother's journal entries. In India, she struggles with stories that reinforce her history of being abandoned by her father, as well as the stunning news that she has siblings. The second book tells of her subsequent return to India to film a documentary about her story. Retracing the steps of her first trip, Mir finds that not all the stories she first heard were true. The woman documented as her mother is not her mother after all, and her father didn't simply abandon her as she'd been led to believe. These discoveries encourage Mir to become a public speaker on adoption, yet the voice of this section lacks the intimate tone of the first. Regardless, Mir's moving attempt to create a personal history from two distant worlds and a few scattered facts will enlighten readers about the emotional journey many adopted children undertake when searching into their past. (June)" Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.) Review:"At first glance, Asha Miró's Daughter of the Ganges is a poignant coming- home story, mixing themes as ancient as the abandoned-baby tale handed down by Moses and Homer's Odyssey. Indian-born, Barcelona-adopted and -raised, Miró goes to Nasik in order to uncover the truth about the mother and family who let her go. This book, however, is also a story for our era: The autobiography takes a swift and powerful turn when Miró unearths more than her biological origins; she discovers the insurmountable suffering of the people in her homeland. Daughter of the Ganges describes the limits of western solipsism and the shock that a European might experience when trying to encounter 'themselves' in the midst of third-world suffering. Miró goes to India to recover herself, but in the end, finds other people."-- Yxta Maya Murray, author of The Queen Jade Synopsis:Adopted from India when she was six and raised in Spain, the author takes a heart-wrenching trip back to India as an adult to uncover her roots and discover a sister she never knew. Table of ContentsCONTENTS BOOK ONE: DAUGHTER OF THE GANGES 1. My First Trip Back to India 2. Bombay 3. Nine Instead of Five 4. The Bread of Necessity 5. The Spiral Staircase 6. Something to Offer 7. Mary 8. The Rear Entrance 9. An Object of Attention 10. Films and Injections 11. Nasik 12. Back from India BOOK TWO: THE TWO FACES OF THE MOON 13. Returning to My Origins 14. Everything in Its Proper Place 15. Seeing Mumbai with New Eyes 16. Usha and the Sacred City 17. Daughters of the Godavari 18. Sitabai and Sakubai 19. My Sister Asha's Story 20. Leaving the Land Behind A Message from the Author to the People Included in This Story Acknowledgments Glossary of Indian Words What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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