Good Indian daughter : how I found freedom in being a disappointment / Ruhi Lee.
Publication details: Mulgrave, VIC : Affirm Press, 2021.Description: 325 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781922400789 (paperback)
- Lee, Ruhi
- Lee, Ruhi -- Family
- Autobiographies
- Women, East Indian -- Australia -- Biography
- Single mothers -- Australia -- Biography
- Women -- Australia -- Biography
- East Indians -- Australia -- Biography
- East Indians -- Australia -- Social life and customs
- Children of immigrants -- Australia -- Biography
- Immigrants -- Australia -- Biography
- Biography & Memoir (Australia)
- Cultural studies (Australia)
- 994.004914 23
- 920.72 23
- 305.4092 23
- 305.488914092 23
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 994.004 LEE | Available | 063629 |
Includes bibliographical references.
Long before Ruhi fell pregnant, she knew she was never going to be the 'good Indian daughter' her parents demanded. But when the discovery that she is having a girl sends her into a slump of disappointment, it becomes clear she's getting weighed down by emotional baggage that needs to be unpacked, quickly. So Ruhi sets herself a mission to deal with the potholes in her past before her baby is born. Delving into her youth in suburban Melbourne, she draws a heartrending yet often hilarious picture of a family in crisis, struggling to connect across generational, cultural and personal divides. Sifting through her own shattered self-esteem, Ruhi confronts the abuse threaded through her childhood. How can she hold on to the family and culture she has known and loved her whole life, when they are the reason for her scars? Good Indian Daughter is a brutally honest yet brilliantly funny memoir for anyone who's ever felt like a let-down.