This is a memoir by Maya shanbagh Lang. It’s an amazing book , I was so engrossed that I finished it in two days. It’s the story from the perspective of a girl about her parents and then her daughter. Maya is the daughter of a psychiatrist mother and engineer father, they migrated to US in 70’s. Her father is a very dominating and uncaring sort of person who is always angry and sometimes cruel to her. Her mother talks to her and she has a very strong bond with her but later on when her mother gets Alzheimer’s, and she cares for her , she realises that her mother never saved her in any crucial situation and thru a story wanted to say that any woman who puts herself first in any condition is not selfish and May be she manages life best and she was not very truthful even.
Ultimately she puts her mother in assisted living and it’s her journey from a daughter who always looks up to her mother to a mother who is is very honest with herself and her daughter and about the choices one has to make in life , sometimes initially it looks bad but they are best in the end.
A very good and must read.
2 comments:
Thanks for the excellent recommendation. Will look it up.
SG: yes I loved it.
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