One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

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One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

Author : Scaachi Koul

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Highlights

English

Language

NA

Edition

256

Pages

9780143441267

ISBN-13

0143441267

ISBN-10

Penguin Random House India

Publisher

215 mm

Height

136 mm

Width

16 mm

Thickness

Paperback

Binding

Description

A collection of essays about growing up the daughter of Indian immigrants in Canada, a land of ice and casual racism, by the cultural observer, Scaachi Koul.In One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, Scaachi deploys her razor-sharp humour to share her fears, outrages and mortifying experiences as an outsider growing up in Canada. Her subjects range from s A collection of essays about growing up the daughter of Indian immigrants in Canada, a land of ice and casual racism, by the cultural observer, Scaachi Koul.In One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, Scaachi deploys her razor-sharp humour to share her fears, outrages and mortifying experiences as an outsider growing up in Canada. Her subjects range from shaving her knuckles in grade school, to a shopping trip gone horribly awry, to dealing with internet trolls, to feeling out of place at an Indian wedding as an Indian woman, to parsing the trajectory of fears and anxieties that pressed upon her immigrant parents and bled down a generation. Alongside these personal stories are pointed observations about life as a woman of colour, where every aspect of her appearance is open for critique, derision or outright scorn. Where strict gender rules bind in both Western and Indian cultures, forcing her to confront questions about gender dynamics, racial tensions, ethnic stereotypes and her father's creeping mortalityall as she tries to find her feet in the world.