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Wild boar in the cane field : a novel

Rana, Anniqua, author

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\"One day, a baby girl, Tara, is found, abandoned and covered in flies. She is raised by two mothers in a community rife with rituals and superstition. As she grows, Tara pursues acceptance at all costs. Saffiya, her adoptive mother, and Bhaggan, Saffiya's maidservant, are victims of the men in their community, and the two women, in turn, struggle and live short but complicated lives. The only way for the villagers to find solace is through the rituals of ancient belief systems. Tara lives in a village that could be any village in South Asia, and she dies, like many young women in the area, during childbirth. Her short life is dedicated to her efforts to find happiness, despite the fact that she has no hope of going to school or making any life choices in the feudal, patriarchal world in which she finds herself. Poignant and compelling, Wild Boar in the Cane Field depicts the tragedy that often characterizes the lives of those who live in South Asia--and demonstrates the heroism we are all capable of even in the face of traumatic realities.\"--Publisher.

• Publisher: She Writes Press
• Subject: Foundlings Pakistan Fiction. / Villages Pakistan Fiction. / Abandoned children. / Foundlings. / Ritual. / Social acceptance. / Social status. / Villages. / Pakistan Fiction. / South Asia.
• ISBN: 9781631526688, 1631526685

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PS3618.A4797 W55 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE