A Life Less Ordinary: A Memoir. Ba Halder

A Life Less Ordinary: A Memoir



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Language: English
Page: 192
ISBN: 0061373982, 9780061689994

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A best-seller in India, this stirring autobiography, translated from Bengali and Hindi, is about poverty and brutal child labor, not in factories but at home. When Halder's mother leaves, the child struggles to stay in school, but her father marries her off at 12 to a man more than twice her age, and she bears him three children. Her husband beats her, stones her, and abuses his children. No one helps until finally she dares to leave him and works in backbreaking jobs as a live-in domestic, determined to educate her kids. True to the brave young girl's viewpoint, the plain, first-person narrative is sometimes just too repetitive. But there are unforgettable scenes, as when the pregnant 13-year-old yearns to join her classmates at play and in the classroom. The astonishing Cinderella ending is rooted in gritty realism: Halder's new boss, like the kind father she never had, sees her reading his books as she dusts them and encourages her to write her own story—this story. Rochman, Hazel
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“An Indian Angela’s Ashes . . . A moving depiction of life for millions of imporverished Indian women.” (New York Times )

“Both a societal and literary fence-breaker . . . Truly this is a story of courage under fire.” (The Hindu, India )



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