The Resource What we carry : a memoir, by Maya Shanbhag Lang
What we carry : a memoir, by Maya Shanbhag Lang
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The item What we carry : a memoir, by Maya Shanbhag Lang represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in East Baton Rouge Parish Library.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
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- Summary
- "How much can you judge another woman's choices? What if that woman is your mother? Maya Lang grew up idolizing her brilliant mother, an accomplished psychologist who immigrated to the United States from India, completed her residency and earned an American medical degree--all while nurturing young children and keeping a traditional Indian home. Maya grew up with her mother's stories ringing in her ears, motivating her, encouraging her, offering solace when she needed it. But after Maya moves across the country and becomes a mother herself, everything changes. Their connection, which had once seemed so invulnerable, begins to fray. Maya's mother, once attentive and capable, becomes a grandmother who is cold and distant. As Maya herself confronts the challenges of motherhood, she realizes that the one person on whom she has always relied cannot be there for her. But she does not understand why. Maya begins to reexamine the stories of her childhood in search of answers to her questions about what is happening to her family. Who is her mother, really? Were the stories she told--about life in India, about what it means to be an immigrant in America, about what it means to be a mother--ever really true? Affecting, raw, and poetic, What We Carry is one woman's investigation into her mother's past, the myths she believed, the truths she learned, and her realization that being able to accept both myth and reality is what has finally brought her into adulthood. This is the story of a daughter and her mother, of lies and truths, of being cared by and caring for; it is the story of how we can never really grow up until we fully understand the people who raised us."--Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xiii, 266 pages
- Isbn
- 9780525512394
- Label
- What we carry : a memoir
- Title
- What we carry
- Title remainder
- a memoir
- Statement of responsibility
- by Maya Shanbhag Lang
- Subject
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- trueChildren of immigrants
- trueEast Indian American women
- East Indian American women -- Biography
- trueFamily relationships
- trueFamily secrets
- Lang, Maya
- Lang, Maya -- Family
- trueMother and adult daughter
- trueMothers and daughters
- Autobiographies
- truePostpartum depression
- Secrecy -- Biography
- trueWomen authors
- Women authors, American -- Biography
- trueWomen caregivers
- Mothers and daughters -- United States -- Biography
- truePeople with Alzheimer's disease
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "How much can you judge another woman's choices? What if that woman is your mother? Maya Lang grew up idolizing her brilliant mother, an accomplished psychologist who immigrated to the United States from India, completed her residency and earned an American medical degree--all while nurturing young children and keeping a traditional Indian home. Maya grew up with her mother's stories ringing in her ears, motivating her, encouraging her, offering solace when she needed it. But after Maya moves across the country and becomes a mother herself, everything changes. Their connection, which had once seemed so invulnerable, begins to fray. Maya's mother, once attentive and capable, becomes a grandmother who is cold and distant. As Maya herself confronts the challenges of motherhood, she realizes that the one person on whom she has always relied cannot be there for her. But she does not understand why. Maya begins to reexamine the stories of her childhood in search of answers to her questions about what is happening to her family. Who is her mother, really? Were the stories she told--about life in India, about what it means to be an immigrant in America, about what it means to be a mother--ever really true? Affecting, raw, and poetic, What We Carry is one woman's investigation into her mother's past, the myths she believed, the truths she learned, and her realization that being able to accept both myth and reality is what has finally brought her into adulthood. This is the story of a daughter and her mother, of lies and truths, of being cared by and caring for; it is the story of how we can never really grow up until we fully understand the people who raised us."--Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10889472
- Cataloging source
- LBSOR/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Lang, Maya
- Dewey number
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- 813/.6
- B
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
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- True
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- Lang, Maya
- Lang, Maya
- Women authors, American
- East Indian American women
- Mothers and daughters
- Secrecy
- Label
- What we carry : a memoir, by Maya Shanbhag Lang
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
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- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xiii, 266 pages
- Isbn
- 9780525512394
- Isbn Type
- (hb)
- Lccn
- 2019018845
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
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- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)1108788220
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- OCoLC
- Label
- What we carry : a memoir, by Maya Shanbhag Lang
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
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- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xiii, 266 pages
- Isbn
- 9780525512394
- Isbn Type
- (hb)
- Lccn
- 2019018845
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)1108788220
- on1108788220
- OCoLC
Subject
- trueChildren of immigrants
- trueEast Indian American women
- East Indian American women -- Biography
- trueFamily relationships
- trueFamily secrets
- Lang, Maya
- Lang, Maya -- Family
- trueMother and adult daughter
- trueMothers and daughters
- Autobiographies
- truePostpartum depression
- Secrecy -- Biography
- trueWomen authors
- Women authors, American -- Biography
- trueWomen caregivers
- Mothers and daughters -- United States -- Biography
- truePeople with Alzheimer's disease
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