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Ties That Bind |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / FEATURED BOOK: Bapsi Sidhwa's An American Brat |
| Author: Edward Hower |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 3/1/1994 |
| Size: 1,740 Words, 10,376 Characters |
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AN AMERICAN BRAT
Bapsi Sidhwa
The family has always been at the heart of Bapsi Sidhwa's fiction. Her first published novel, The Crow Eaters (reissued by Milkweed Editions in 1992), is a comedy of family manners whose characters are members of South Asia's tiny Parsi community, descendants of Zoroastrians who migrated from Persia centuries ago. The book's title has nothing to do with their dietary habits: it's merely a colloquial term for people who talk too much.
The head of this novel's talkative family is a lovable scoundrel named Faredoon Junglewalla, or Freddie. He seeks his fortune in the fabled city of Lahore, arriving on a bullock cart with his pregnant wife and widowed mother-in-law. Freddie pursues his business dealings with a complete lack of scruples, toadying up to the...
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...es catastrophic historical events, like those in Cracking India, a deeply felt, personal meaning. She is also able to endow domestic occurrences with a sense of high drama. Whereas in The Bride, family tensions take on a menacing quality, in The Crow Eaters and Cracking India, family relationships--though never without some strife--are characterized by warmth, humor, and a healing intimacy.
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