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Of Rumours Lived And Told

Of Rumours Lived And Told

Correa, Ann

Paperback

Self-Help

ISBN10: 9352015991
ISBN13: 9789352015993
Publisher: Platinum Pr
Published: Aug 24 2017
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
- On a lazy Sunday afternoon, after a lunch of succulent pork and chilled beer, Andrea settles down with her uncle and aunt to retell family stories of Akkai, a Roman Catholic nun (and Andrea's great-aunt), who died under mysterious circumstances. - This gets Andrea thinking about the lives of the other nuns in the family - like bold and brassy, salsa-dancing great-aunt Deidre, who left the convent to be the Principal of a college; others soft and steely like Akkai, and the don-like Stella Marie, a nursing superintendent. - Andrea realizes these women have played a large part in the architecture of her childhood in the Mangalorean Catholic community of Bangalore. - As she talks to family members about the nun-aunts, Andrea unearths some peculiar and quirky aspects. Through whispered stories in the family, she comes to appreciate the porous convent walls the nun-aunts and the family navigate. - But she also encounters unexpected reticence from some of the family, whose memories of the nun-aunts are somewhat differently textured. - This richly human memoir tells the story of how a young girl finds her way through a flood-tide of recollections and emotion to navigate the tricky shoals of family ties, in an effort to bring closure to the family past.

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