{"product_id":"9781932511826","title":"You Have Given Me a Country: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e2010 \u003ci\u003eForeWord\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year, Essay Silver Medalist, 2011 IPPY Awards in Multi-Cultural Adult Fiction\u003cbr\u003e2011 American Book Award\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Vaswani is a confident writer whose unflinching eye shows the reader the beauty grounded in the mundane.”\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Vaswani’s voice is witty, sharp, innovative, unique.”Chitra Banerjee\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou Have Given Me a Country\u003c\/i\u003e is an emotionally powerful exploration of blurred borders, identity, and what it means to be multicultural. Combining memoir, history, and fiction, the book follows the paths of the author's Irish-Catholic mother and Sindhi-Indian father on their journey toward each other and the biracial child they create. Neela Vaswani's second full-length work thematically echoes such books as \u003ci\u003eThe Color of Water\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRunning in the Family\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eMotiba's Tatoos\u003c\/i\u003e, but it is entirely unique in approach, voice, and story. The book reveals the self as a culmination of all that went before it, a brilliant new weave of two varied, yet ultimately universal backgrounds that spans continents, generations, languages, wars, and, at the center of it all, family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNeela Vaswani\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the short story collection \u003ci\u003eWhere the Long Grass Bends\u003c\/i\u003e (Sarabande Books, 2004). Recipient of a 2006 O. Henry Prize, her fiction and nonfiction have been widely anthologized and published in journals such as \u003ci\u003eEpoch\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShenandoah\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePrairie Schooner\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sarabande Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050885824752,"sku":"9781932511826","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781932511826_p0.jpg?v=1763639893","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781932511826","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}