You Bring the Distant Near

You Bring the Distant Near

Nominated for the National Book Award * Winner of the South Asia Book Award * Walter Award Honor for Teen Literature * PW Best Book of the Year * SLJ Best Book of the Year * Horn Book Fanfare List * Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year * NYPL Best Book of the Year * Boston Globe Best Book of the Year * ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults * Nominated for the 2019 Mississippi Magnolia Award * Six starred reviews:Â â˜… Horn Book â˜…Â School Library Journal â˜…Â Publishers Weekly â˜…Â BooklistÂ â˜…Â Shelf AwarenessÂ â˜…Â VOYA

Five girls. Three generations. One great American love story.Â You Bring the Distant Near explores sisterhood, first loves, friendship, and the inheritance of culture--for better or worse. Ranee, worried that her children are losing their Indian culture; Sonia, wrapped up in a forbidden biracial love affair; Tara, seeking the limelight to hide her true self; Shanti, desperately trying to make peace in the family; Anna, fighting to preserve her Bengali identity--award-winning author Mitali Perkins weaves together a sweeping story of five women at once intimately relatable and yet entirely new.

"Perkins tells a nuanced, quintessentially American story. She affectionately traces four young women's interrelated yet distinct paths to determining their identities, and, later in the book, adds a fifth. Ranee, the Das family matriarch, has long lived according to Bengali tradition. In her 60s, she embarks on a process of discovery familiar to many immigrants who move to this country as adults: She reshapes herself from the blended clay of her native and adopted homes." -- Chicago Tribune
Country USA
Brand Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
Manufacturer Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2017-09-12
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780374304904

Country	USA
Brand	Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
Manufacturer	Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2017-09-12
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780374304904

You Bring the Distant Near

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