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003			OCoLC
005			20200609152504.0
008			190701s2020 nyu 000 0aeng
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019			_a1153177066
020			_a9780525512394 _q(hardback)
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035			_a(OCoLC)1108788220 _z(OCoLC)1153177066
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043			_an-us---
092			_aLang, M. _bL271
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aLang, Maya, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aWhat we carry : _ba memoir / _cby Maya Shanbhag Lang.
250			_aFirst edition.
263			_a2004
264		1	_aNew York : _bThe Dial Press, _c[2020]
300			_axiii, 266 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"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, The Woman in the River 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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aLang, Maya.
600	1	0	_aLang, Maya _xFamily.
650		0	_aWomen authors, American _vBiography. _9148331
650		0	_aEast Indian American women _vBiography. _9392632
650		0	_aMothers and daughters _zUnited States _vBiography. _966715
650		0	_aSecrecy _vBiography.
655		7	_aAutobiographies. _2lcgft _9728
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