Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian American Daughters on Obedience and Rebellion
Piyali Bhattacharya & Ankita Rao & Ayesha Mattu & Fawzia Mirza & Hema Sarang-Sieminski & Jabeen Akhtar & Jyothi Natarajan & Leila Khan & Madiha Bhatti & Mathangi Subramanian & Meghna Chandra & Natasha Singh & Nayomi Munaweera & Neelanjana Banerjee & Phiroozeh Romer & Rachna Khatau & Rajpreet Heir & Roksana Badruddoja & Sayantani Dasgupta & Sj Sindu & Sona Charaipotra & Surya Kundu & Swati Khurana & Tanzila Ahmed & Tara Dorabji & Triveni Gandhi
Language: English
Publisher: Aunt Lute Books
Published: Jan 15, 2017
Description:
GOOD GIRLS MARRY DOCTORS: SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN DAUGHTERS ON OBEDIENCE AND REBELLION, edited by Piyali Bhattacharya, is the first anthology to examine the multiple facets of daughterhood in South Asian American families. **
About the Author
Piyali Bhattacharya is a writer, editor, and writing instructor based in Nashville, TN where she is Writer-in-Residence at Vanderbilt University. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, National Geographic, and many other publications. She is the editor of the anthology GOOD GIRLS MARRY DOCTORS: SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN DAUGHTERS ON OBEDIENCE AND REBELLION, which was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. She holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is currently working on her first novel, an excerpt from which won the 2015 Peter Straub Award for Fiction. She can be reached at www.piyalibhattacharya.com.