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Ep. 69 | Partition Narratives

July 10, 2019 Reading Women
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For July, Kendra and Sumaiyya talk about about this month’s theme, the partition of India.

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Books Mentioned

  • An Unrestored Woman by Shobha Rao

  • Ice Candy Man (Cracking India in the US) by Bapsi Sidhwa

  • The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani

  • The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay

Guest Picks

  • Chachaji's Cup by Uma Krishnaswami, Illustrated by Soumya Sitaraman

  • The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan by Yasmin Khan

Currently Reading

  • To Keep the Sun Alive by Rabeah Ghaffari

  • Ask Me About My Uterus by Abby Norman


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About Veera

Veera Hiranandani is the author of The Night Diary (Kokila), which received the 2019 Newbery Honor Award, the 2019 Walter Dean Myers Honor Award and the 2018 Malka Penn Award for Human Rights in Children's Literature. The Night Diary has been featured on NPR's Weekend Edition, is a New York Times Editor's Choice Pick, and was chosen as a 2018 Best Children's Book of the Year byThe New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, Amazon, School Library Journal, and Kirkus Reviews, among others. She is also the author of The Whole Story of Half a Girl (Yearling), which was named a Sydney Taylor Notable Book and a South Asian Book Award Finalist, and the chapter book series, Phoebe G. Green (Grosset & Dunlap). She earned her MFA in fiction writing at Sarah Lawrence College. A former book editor at Simon & Schuster, she now teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College's Writing Institute and is working on her next novel.

Website | Twitter | Educator’s Guide for The Night Diary


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