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A People's History of Heaven (Hardcover)
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A politically driven graffiti artist. A transgender Christian convert.
A blind girl who loves to dance. A queer daughter of a hijabi union
leader. These are some of the young women who live in a Bangalore slum
known as Heaven, young women whom readers will come to love in the
moving, atmospheric, and deeply inspiring debut, A People's History of
Heaven.
Welcome to Heaven, a thirty-year-old slum hidden between brand-new
high-rise apartment buildings and technology incubators in contemporary
Bangalore, one of India's fastest-growing cities. In Heaven, you will
come to know a community made up almost entirely of women, mothers and
daughters who have been abandoned by their men when no male heir was
produced. Living hand-to-mouth and constantly struggling against the
city government who wants to bulldoze their homes and build yet more
glass high-rises, these women, young and old, gladly support one
another, sharing whatever they can.
This is a story about geography, history, and strength, about love and
friendship, about fighting for the people and places we love even if no
one else knows they exist. Elegant, poetic, bursting with colour,
Mathangi Subramanian's novel is a moving and celebratory story of girls
on the cusp of adulthood who find joy just in the basic act of living.
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