![]() ![]() Neela Vaswani is the author of the short story collection Where the Long Grass Bends (Sarabande Books, 2004). "Vaswani's voice is witty, sharp, innovative, unique." Chitra Banerjee ![]() "Vaswani is a confident writer whose unflinching eye shows the reader the beauty grounded in the mundane." San Francisco Chronicle The book reveals the self as a culmination of all that went before it, a brilliant new weave of two varied, yet ultimately universal backgrounds that spans continents, generations, languages, wars, and, at the center of it all, family. Neela Vaswani's second full-length work thematically echoes such books as The Color of Water, Running in the Family, or Motiba's Tatoos, but it is entirely unique in approach, voice, and story. Combining memoir, history, and fiction, the book follows the paths of the author's Irish-Catholic mother and Sindhi-Indian father on their journey toward each other and the biracial child they create. You Have Given Me a Country is an emotionally powerful exploration of blurred borders, identity, and what it means to be multicultural. Silver Medalist, 2011 IPPY Awards in Multi-Cultural Adult Fiction ![]()
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