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The atlas of reds and blues : a novel / Devi S. Laskar.
When a woman--known only as Mother--moves her family from Atlanta to its wealthy suburbs, she discovers that neither the times nor the people have changed since her childhood in a small Southern town. Despite the intervening decades, Mother is met with the same questions: Where are you from? No, where are you really from? The American-born daughter of Bengali immigrants, she finds that her answer-- Here --is never enough. Mother's simmering anger breaks through one morning, when, during a violent and unfounded police raid on her home, she finally refuses to be complacent. As she lies bleeding from a gunshot wound, her thoughts race from childhood games with her sister and visits to cousins in India, to her time in the newsroom before having her three daughters, to the early days of her relationship with a husband who now spends more time flying business class than at home. The Atlas of Reds and Blues grapples with the complexities of the second-generation American experience, what it means to be a woman of color in the workplace, and a sister, a wife, and a mother to daughters in today's America.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781640091535
- ISBN: 164009153X
- ISBN: 9781640093416
- ISBN: 1640093419
- Physical Description: 258 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First hardcover edition.
- Publisher: Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2019.
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| Subject: | Police shootings > Fiction. Immigrants > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Easton Main Library | LASKAR (Text) | 31901004316024 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Albright Memorial Library | FICTION LASKAR (Text) | 50686015448975 | Storage | Available | - |
| Allentown Public Library | LASKAR, DEVI (Text) | 34455006534164 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Altoona Area Public Library | F LAS (Text) | 33240004486026 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Bethlehem Main Library | f (Text) | 33062009106890 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Cambria County Library | FICTION Las (Text) | 85131001656413 | CACM Fiction | Available | - |
| Ellwood City Area Public Library | FIC Laskar (Text) | 32102000863734 | ECAM Fiction | Available | - |
| Gettysburg Library | FIC LASKAR DEVI (Text) | 35740635509599 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Mifflin Community Library | LAS (Text) | 33249023285392 | Fiction | Available | - |
| New Castle Public Library | Fic Laskar (Text) | 31902005332713 | NWCM Fiction | Available | - |
