Stay, Daughter

Author : Yasmin Azad

Hardback

Published : Thursday 6 April 2023

ISBN : 9781800751392

Price : €17.54

Description

We did not stay in our houses. Not in the way our grandmothers had, or our mothers. We went out a little more and veiled ourselves a little less. Some of us longed for more learning and dreamed about leaving home to get it. The elders shook their heads and cautioned: too much education could ruin a girls future.

To be a Muslim girl in the Sri Lanka of the 50s and 60s was to have to stay inside once you hit puberty; where even a glimpse of flesh was forbidden; and where things were done the way theyd always been done.

But Yasmin Azads family is full of love, humour and larger-than-life characters, despite the strictures half of them were under. And almost despite himself, Yasmins father allows her an education - an education that would open the whole world to her, even as it risked closing her off from those she was closest to.

An extraordinary portrait of a time and a community in the midst of profound change, Stay, Daughter vividly evokes a now-vanished world, but its central clash - that of tradition and modernity - is one that will always be with us.

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