Mother Land: A Novel

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What follows is a fierce, if well-meant, battle of wills as Rachel and Swati each try to shape the other to meet cultural expectations. Flora had made a large sign that said Motherland, with an image of a woman opening her arms to cultivated land. He’s frightened… He wants to have what his reflection has and yet still retain the essence of his self.

And when Eleanor meets widower Peter and his daughter, Martina, a new, more peaceful life seems possible. The eight chapters range widely across time (1830-1939) and place, from exploring working class women's community sanctions and the perils facing collier's wife to the very different lifestyles of ironmasters' wives.

The everyday challenges faced by Rachel, a main character in Leah Franqui’s second novel, Mother Land, may resonate with anyone who has spent considerable time in a new country or even in a new community. Readers who know Savageau’s earlier chronicling of those who sacralize and profane her homescape will be astonished at this poetic culmination of fully-drawn portraits. Heartfelt, charming, deeply insightful and wise, Mother Land introduces us to two ver Fifi’s social schedule is packed and she has a job she enjoys; she and her husband explore Mumbai and make it theirs. Life, death, creation, destruction, past, present, future have yet to find a name; and that which has been lost is still playing out its final act.

Friends become enemies, and Jess discovers how easy it is to switch sides, and how sides can be switched for you, sometimes without you even knowing. Suddenly these two strong-willed women from such very different backgrounds, who see life so differently, are alone together in a home that each is determined to run in her own way—a situation that ultimately brings into question the very things in their lives that had seemed perfect and permanent.

Instead he has produced a book which benighted knee-jerk nationalists on both sides of the Aegean will detest but which will with any luck be remembered as remarkable literature long after time has swept such people away.

Then cultural expectations, language barriers and mounting loneliness start revealing all the voids that can’t easily be filled.Let me also clear that “𝙎𝙡𝙪𝙢𝙙𝙤𝙜 𝙈𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙞𝙧𝙚” DOES NOT DEFINE INDIA WHICH IS MADE BY A BRITISH DIRECTOR. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

Mother/Land is restoring the world through the retelling of patterns passed woman to woman like songs to lips. The everyday challenges faced by Rachel, a main character in Leah Franqui’s second novel, Mother Land, may resonate with anyone who has spent considerable time in a new country or even in a new community . Yes, Swati inserts herself into Rachel’s life in Mumbai, but she’s accepting when Rachel drinks alcohol, smokes cigarettes, and associates with male friends. the differences between them became repetitive and seemed insignificant; it was like the author kept trying to further establish the characters even though we’d already met them hundreds of pages ago.Flora said she couldn’t assess anything until the water drained, but assumed they’d have to start over from scratch. MOTHER LAND takes the unlikely friendship of a white American woman and her Indian mother-in-law and uses the relationship to explore the complexities of marriage, feminism, and loving people from backgrounds that don't at all match your own. Franqui’s fictionalized experiences serve as cautionary tales for those hoping that a place or a person will change their lives—as well as for women with mother-in-law issues.