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Naming Maya

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By Uma Krishnaswami
Publisher Farrar, Straus Giroux - (Farrar, Straus Giroux (BYR))
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West meets East Although Maya has done her best to avoid it, she is spending part of her summer in Chennai, India, with her mother, who is trying to sell her grandfathers old house. Soon Maya is drawn into a complicated friendship with eccentric Kamala Mami, who has been a housekeeper and cook for years in Mayas extended family. At the same time, Maya is thrust into an ocean of memories, all coming at her too quickly for her to understand. In particular, she is forced to examine the history of her parents divorce all the more painful because she believes the trouble began with the choosing of her name. For years the tension has simmered in a cauldron of anxiety, secrets, and misunderstandings. It is only with the help of Kamala Mami and Mayas cousin Sumati that Maya is able to see what happened to her parents. In this compelling first novel, a young Indian American girl finally learns that she can choose which memories to keep and which to let go.

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33258 words33,258 words
192 pages192 pages
Lexile 770LLexile 770L
Published 2004Published 2004

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9780374354855

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