Olive witch : a memoir
(Book)
Author
Published
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India : Fourth Estate, 2016.
ISBN
9789351777007, 9351777006
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Bridgeview Public Library - Stacks | 305.8914 HOQ | On Shelf |
Forest Park Public Library - Stacks | 920 HOQ | On Shelf |
Subjects
LC Subjects
Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Autobiographies.
Bangladesh -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Bangladeshi Americans -- Biography.
Emigration and immigration -- Psychological aspects.
Hoque, Abeer Y. -- Childhood and youth.
Pittsburgh (Pa.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Poetry.
Women authors -- Biography.
Autobiographies.
Bangladesh -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Bangladeshi Americans -- Biography.
Emigration and immigration -- Psychological aspects.
Hoque, Abeer Y. -- Childhood and youth.
Pittsburgh (Pa.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Poetry.
Women authors -- Biography.
More Details
Published
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India : Fourth Estate, 2016.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
x, 244 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9789351777007, 9351777006
Notes
General Note
Prose, with poems and weather conditions framing each chapter.
Description
In the 1970s, Nigeria is flush with oil money, building new universities, and hanging on to old colonial habits. Abeer Hoque is a Bangladeshi girl growing up in a small sunlit town, where the red clay earth, corporal punishment and running games are facts of life. At thirteen she moves with her family to suburban Pittsburgh and finds herself surrounded by clouded skies and high schoolers who speak in movie quotes and pop culture slang. Finding her place as a young woman in America proves more difficult than she can imagine. Disassociated from her parents, and laid low by academic pressure and spiralling depression, she is committed to a psychiatric ward in Philadelphia. When she moves to Bangladesh on her own, it proves to be yet another beginning for someone who is only just getting used to being an outsider - wherever she is. Arresting and beautifully written, with poems and weather conditions framing each chapter, Olive Witch is an intimate memoir about taking the long way home.
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Hoque, A. Y. (2016). Olive witch: a memoir . Fourth Estate.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hoque, Abeer Y.. 2016. Olive Witch: A Memoir. Fourth Estate.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hoque, Abeer Y.. Olive Witch: A Memoir Fourth Estate, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Hoque, Abeer Y.. Olive Witch: A Memoir Fourth Estate, 2016.
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