Download or read book Trust No Aunty written by Maria Qamar and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on her popular Instagram @Hatecopy and her experience in a South Asian immigrant family, artist Maria Qamar has created a humorous, illustrated “survival guide” to deal with overbearing “Aunties,” whether they’re family members, annoying neighbors, or just some random ladies throwing black magic your way. We’ve all experienced interference from our Aunties—they are at family parties and friendly get-togethers, finding ways to make your life difficult, trying to get you to marry their sons, and telling you to lose weight while simultaneously feeding you a second dinner—and it has stunted our social growth and embarrassed us in front of our friends and cool cousins for years. This tongue-in-cheek guide is full of advice designed to help you manage Aunty meddling and encourages you to pursue your passions—from someone who has been through it all. Qamar confesses to throwing sweatshirts over crop-tops to get out of the house without being questioned, hiding her boyfriend in a closet, and enduring overbearing parents endless pressuring her to become a doctor, lawyer, or engineer. Holding onto your cultural identity is tough. Always interfering Aunties make it even harder. But ultimately, Aunties keep our lives interesting. As an Aunty-survivor and a woman who has lived the cross-cultural experience, Qamar defied the advice of her aunties almost every step of the way, and she is here to remind you: Trust No Aunty.

Download or read book Aunty s House written by Romicha Cooper and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2021-06-14 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aunty's House is a playful tale of a young girl visiting her aunty ’s house, playing and roughhousing with her cousins who she enjoys so much. This book is perfect for any school aged child who shares a love for family and especially AUNTY! Reading this book rather young or old will put a grin on your face as you also imagine your own experiences growing up being playful, innocent, and feeling loved.

Download or read book Big Breasts and Wide Hips written by Yan Mo and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jintong, his mother, and his eight sisters struggle to survive through the major crises of twentieth century China, which include civil war, invasion by the Japanese, the cultural revolution, and communist rule in the new China.

Download or read book How I Braved Anu Aunty and Co Founded a Million Dollar Company written by Varun Agarwal and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Usual Auntijies written by Paven Virk and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-03-05 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aunti-ji - noun. a term sometimes used to address women older than oneself. Ji is traditionally used after someone's name to show respect, mainly by the communities of the Indian sub-continent. Somewhere in the city live three elderly, South Asian auntijies who have found themselves together in a refuge for abused women, empty of memories and bereft of their families and friends. Nearby, a new Indian bride has arrived in the country only to find herself in a place that she is utterly unprepared for. The Usual Auntijies is a bitter-sweet new comic-drama that visits the lives of four women as they embark on an inspiring, emotional and comic journey to overcome the past abuse and rediscover their sense of life, love and happiness. Exploring ideas of family and the cultural differences that exist between the East and West, the Auntijies struggle with popular Western culture and provide a hybrid cultural context which amusingly sits alongside the women's otherness and past pain. The Usual Auntijies is a celebration of all women of a particular age whose desires and struggles are too often forgotten.

Download or read book Chick and the Homestead Chickens of Grymme Creek Hollow written by David Boyette and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas in a place known as Grymme Creek Hollow was an abandoned homestead. Abandoned did not mean it was uninhabited. It was abandoned because the original owner was long gone. The chickens left behind claimed the Homestead for themselves. A stone wall surrounded the homestead and the chickens believed this was where civilization began and ended. Outside that stone wall was the dangerous wilderness known as the Deep Brush. The homestead was home to a chick named Chick. He was named Chick because his parents were not very imaginative. However Chick was very imaginative and had a real talent for finding adventure. Aunty Hysidia, of the ruling Council of Aunties has accused Chick's Father, Walter, of stealing corn. A serious offense that is punishable by being exiled into the Deep Brush. Chick, with his friends Peq and Quinny, must prove Walter's innocence.

Download or read book Please Jangan Tackle Aku written by Siti Rozilah and published by Buku Prima. This book was released on 2015 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MENYANGKA yang dirinya telah dizalimi Eizhan, kekasihnya sendiri, Nur Naziha mula membenci lelaki. Dia kemudiannya bekerja di sebuah farmasi di Mentakab. Di situ, dia diburu cinta Lokman Azad, duda kematian isteri. Lemas dikejar cinta duda itu, Nur Naziha nekad letak jawatan dan kembali ke Kuala Lumpur. Tetapi, di kota raya itu juga hidupnya tidak aman. Eizhan yang tidak pernah melupakan Nur Naziha, terus mencari dan menagih cintanya. Begitu juga dengan Marzuki, abang tiri Eizhan yang ligat memburu Nur Naziha untuk memuaskan keegoannya. Kemudian, kemelut semakin meruncing apabila muncul Ridzuan Hakeem, seorang kanak-kanak lelaki comel di dalam hidup mereka. Siapakah sebenarnya Marzuki dalam hidup Nur Naziha? Dan siapakah kanak-kanak yang bernama Ridzuan Hakeem itu? Di antara Eizhan, Marzuki dan Lokman Azad, di pangkuan siapakah kasih Nur Naziha mendarat?

Download or read book Water Colours written by Sarah Walker and published by Lothian Children's Books. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you ran away, you'd show your family that you can't be pushed around,' Merryl challenged me. 'It doesn't have to be forever - just for a few days. But I bet you haven't got the guts to stand up to them.' I knew what she was trying to do. I wanted to resist and be sensible, but part of me was drawn to her logic, and the rest of me was drawn to her rebellious spirit. I thought again of the way Auntie Eddy said Merryl was like my mother. Mum would've run away for sure. When Beatrice is forced to leave her beloved Wilson Park and her offbeat friend, Marty, she sets out to claim her independence. On the way, she discovers the shocking truth about her mother, and learns what friendship and family really mean. Change is hard, but as her Aunty Olivia tells her, sometimes when you lose something, you gain something else.

Download or read book A Kind of Madness written by Uche Okonkwo and published by CMC Verve. This book was released on 2024-08-15 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** Includes the 2024 shortlisted Caine Prize story, 'Animals' ** **An Oprah Daily and Brittle Paper Most Anticipated Book of 2024** A searing, unflinching collection of stories set in Nigeria that explores community expectations, familial strife and the struggle for survival. A one-eyed chicken, a chimpanzee forgotten in a cage, a tormented daughter searching for a link to past lives. Everday madness and monsters are explored against the backdrop of an indifferent Lagos in Uche Okonkwo's dynamic debut collection. Across ten evocative stories, A Kind of Madness dips in and out of the lives of Nigerians, weaving through their lunacy and longing, unravelling the tensions between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, best friends, siblings and more. Brimming with vitality, these bites of mundane madness mark the arrival of an extraordinary new talent in fiction and will leave you hungering for more. Perfect for fans of Love in Colour by Bolu Babalola, Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri and Nearly All the Men in Lagos are Mad by Damilare Kuku. 'Crackling with energy and alive to our whole kaleidoscope of feeling, these stories will rip you open and light up your insides' - Saba Sams, author of Send Nudes 'Steady-handed and gut-punching. I'm in awe of this mad collection, this necessary writer' - NoViolet Bulawayo, author of Glory 'Uche Okonkwo's voice is absorbing. I was immersed in the familiar world of these tender, playfully haunting, darkly funny stories. Okonkwo is a writer to watch' - Chinelo Okparanta, author of Under the Udala Trees 'To read A Kind of Madness is to have an experience: of complex characters grappling with life's many troubles, of a robust culture, of history, of the battle between the domestic and the public, and all the big themes of life woven together. Like Jhumpa Lahiri, Okonkwo's mastery of the form is as rich as some of the short story's best practitioners and deserves every recognition it is sure to get' - Chigozie Obioma, author of An Orchestra of Minorities 'Touched my heart. Uche Okonkwo's stories are among the very best' - Sidik Fofana, author of Stories from the Tenants Downstairs 'Hilarious and heartbreaking... A delightful debut' - Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, author of A Girl is a Body of Water 'Okonkwo has a Chekhovian eye for the tangle of internal motivations and assumptions that steer her characters... Readers will be eager for more of Okonkwo's artful writing' - Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) 'This collection explores how relationships, traditions and hardships can drive us to different kinds of madness. Be it mental illness, broken promises or unmet expectations, life's complexities are the main characters in these striking and insightful stories' - Ms Magazine 'Intense and masterfully evocative... In delicately chiselled prose, Okonkwo successfully reveals the intricate contours of humanity and the Nigerian life. Using this collection to nail her name to the wall of blazingly promising literary talents, Okonkwo has given us stories that settle in the pits of our stomachs like they belong there. How gorgeously absorbing' - Republic 'Surprising, illuminating, and deeply human' - Booklist 'Vivid... Striking a perfect balance between humor and heartbreak, A Kind of Madness shows incredible wiseness on the complexity and at times maddening nature of loving our family, our friends, and our home' - Chicago Review of Books

Download or read book The Pink Line written by Mark Gevisser and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of TIME's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020. Longlisted for the 2021 Rathbones Folio Prize. "[Mark] Gevisser is clear-eyed and wise enough to have a sharp sense of how tough the struggle has been, and how hard it will be now for those who have not succeeded in finding shelter from prejudice." --Colm Tóibín, The Guardian A groundbreaking look at how the issues of sexuality and gender identity divide and unite the world today More than seven years in the making, Mark Gevisser’s The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer Frontiers is an exploration of how the conversation around sexual orientation and gender identity has come to divide—and describe—the world in an entirely new way over the first two decades of the twenty-first century. No social movement has brought change so quickly and with such dramatically mixed results. While same-sex marriage and gender transition are celebrated in some parts of the world, laws are being strengthened to criminalize homosexuality and gender nonconformity in others. As new globalized queer identities are adopted by people across the world—thanks to the digital revolution—fresh culture wars have emerged. A new Pink Line, Gevisser argues, has been drawn across the globe, and he takes readers to its frontiers. Between sensitive and sometimes startling profiles of the queer folk he’s encountered along the Pink Line, Gevisser offers sharp analytical chapters exploring identity politics, religion, gender ideology, capitalism, human rights, moral panics, geopolitics, and what he calls “the new transgender culture wars.” His subjects include a Ugandan refugee in flight to Canada, a trans woman fighting for custody of her child in Moscow, a lesbian couple campaigning for marriage equality in Mexico, genderqueer high schoolers coming of age in Michigan, a gay Israeli-Palestinian couple searching for common ground, and a community of kothis—“women’s hearts in men’s bodies”—who run a temple in an Indian fishing village. What results is a moving and multifaceted picture of the world today, and the queer people defining it. Eye-opening, heartfelt, expertly researched, and compellingly narrated, The Pink Line is a monumental—and urgent—journey of unprecedented scope into twenty-first-century identity, seen through the border posts along the world’s new LGBTQ+ frontiers.

Download or read book Mr and Mrs Doctor written by Julie Iromuanya and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ifi and Job, a Nigerian couple in an arranged marriage, begin their lives together in Nebraska with a single, outrageous lie: that Job is a doctor, not a college dropout. Unwittingly, Ifi becomes his co-conspirator—that is until his first wife, Cheryl, whom he married for a green card years ago, reenters the picture and upsets Job's tenuous balancing act. Julie Iromuanya has short stories and novel excerpts appearing or forthcoming in the Kenyon Review, Passages North, the Cream City Review, and the Tampa Review, among other journals. She is a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. Mr. and Mrs. Doctor is her first novel.

Download or read book Listen to Ngarrindjeri Women Speaking written by Diane Bell and published by Spinifex Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ngarrindjeri women have stories to tell about their lives and their visions for the future. Here they take us into their world of caring for their country, their families and their nation. Their stories will charm and delight and their stories will jar and shock.

Download or read book Once a Week written by Eneas Sweetland Dallas and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Audition Speeches for Black South Asian and Middle Eastern Actors Monologues for Women written by Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audition Speeches for Black, South Asian and Middle Eastern Actors: Monologues for Women aims to provide new and exciting audition and showcase material for actresses of black, African American, South Asian and Middle Eastern heritage. Featuring the work of international contemporary playwrights who have written powerful and diverse roles for a range of actors, the collection is edited by Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway. Categorized by age-range, the monologues are collected in groups of characters playable by actresses in their teens, twenties, thirties and forties+, and include work from over 25 top-class dramatists including Sudha Bhuchar, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Marcus Gardley, Mona Mansour and Naomi Wallace. Audition Speeches for Black, South Asian and Middle Eastern Actors: Monologues for Women is the go-to resource for contemporary monologues and speeches for auditions. Ideal for aspiring and professional actresses, it allows performers to enhance their particular strengths and prepare for roles featuring characters of specific ethnic backgrounds.

Download or read book W A G s Tale written by Margaret Turnbull and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-18 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "W. A. G.'s Tale" by Margaret Turnbull. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Download or read book We Walked to Freedom written by Loretta Slaton and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of courage, determination, and the will to survive, this memoir recounts the life of Chinese refugee student Loretta Slaton who lived in Japan-occupied Hong Kong during World War II. Shortly after the Japanese occupation began in Hong Kong, a group of Chinese college students from Hong Kong University, Slaton among them, left home and ventured west to try and live in Free China. Separated from her family and trying to avoid the Japanese Army, she traveled west to Kweilin, north to Chengtu, and eventually ended up in Kunming, part of Free China. Slaton worked as a secretary for the Office of War Information in Kunming, and soon met an American officer, Clyde Slaton, the man she would eventually marry. For years, Slaton feared for her family's fate. When she returned to Hong Kong in September of 1945, she was overjoyed to learn that her entire family had survived. But Slaton's days of adventure were far from over. She traveled to America with her husband, and his service with the Foreign Service arm of the United States Information Agency took them to numerous Asian countries for the next several years. We Walked to Freedom explores the strength of the human spirit and the power of one woman's will to forge a bright future.

Download or read book KATERERCINTA written by NURUL SHAHIDA and published by Alaf 21. This book was released on 2019-06-05 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pada usia 22 tahun, Maira mengahwini lelaki yang dicintainya sejak dia berusia 16 tahun. Demi cinta dan rasa sayang, dia korbankan kerjaya dan hidupnya, demi menjaga ibu mertuanya Puan Nas yang sakit dan menjadi isteri yang setia pada Annasbakal seorang doktor. Namun, beberapa minit sebelum dia menyambut hari jadinya yang ke-23, Maira bergelar janda. Selama lapan tahun dia berusaha untuk membina semula hidupnya dan memperbaharui matlamat hidupnya dengan mengejar kerjaya yang cemerlang dalam bidang katering. Pengalaman masa lalu dilupakan dan dia fokus sepenuhnya pada perniagaan yang semakin berkembang. Tetapi bila klien terbaharunya adalah bekas suaminya sendiri, yang kini bakal mengahwini seorang wanita yang serba-serbinya lebih daripada Maira, Maira harus membuat pilihan. Sama ada dia melarikan diri daripada kesakitan yang sudah lama dipendam atau berdepan dengan masa lalu yang kembali menghantui dirinya. “Saya dah lama belajar untuk terima kenyataan tu. Kalau Encik Annas tak balik ke Malaysia pun, saya dah ajar hati saya untuk terima yang Encik Annas takkan patah balik untuk saya. Talak tiga Encik Annas tu dah membuktikannya pun,” ~Maira “Abang appreciate sangat the fact that you ada dengan abang dan abang appreciate sangat yang you kekal dengan abang through all this. And I will always remember how good you have been to me,” ~Annas Menarik tentang novel ini: Sebuah karya yang sangat santai oleh novelis prolifik Nurul Syahida. Penggunaan gaya bahasa yang mudah dan santai pasti akan menjadikan pembaca tertarik untuk membaca karya ini sehingga habis. Kisah seorang gadis yang berkahwin di usia yang agak muda dan bagaimana dia mengharungi kehidupan sebagai seorang suri rumah sepenuh masa dan menjaga ibu mentuanya yang menghidap penyakit kanser tahap 4. Walau bagaimanapun, suaminya yang telah berjanji ingin menjaganya dengan baik, secara tiba-tiba telah melafazkan cerai talak tiga kepadanya dan menyebabkan dia mengalami kemurungan. Dia cuba bangkit dengan bantuan seorang rakan baiknya dan akhirnya berjaya menjadi seorang katerer yang terkenal dan berjaya. Elemen persahabatan dan jati diri yang tinggi telah diterapkan di dalam karya ini pasti membuatkan pembaca tidak sabar ingin mengetahui kisah hidup Maira. Dan elemen percintaan yang santai membuatkan karya ini lebih dekat di hati pembaca.