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Introduction: Bapsi Sidhwa's An American Brat |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / FEATURED BOOK: Bapsi Sidhwa's An American Brat |
| Author: Editor |
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The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 3/1/1994 |
| Size: 252 Words, 1,608 Characters |
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What happens when an impetuous sixteen year-old Pakistani girl leaves her homeland and wealthy family to encounter America? In An American Brat, novelist Bapsi S...
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...idhwa grew up and was educated in Lahore, Pakistan. She has taught at Columbia, Rice, and the University of Texas. Her previous novels include The Crow Eaters, The Bride, and Cracking India.. A social activist among Asian women, she represented Pakistan at the Asian Women's Congress in 1975. Among other awards, she received the Sitara-I-Imtiaz, Pakistan's highest honor in the arts, in 1991.
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