Bird Milk and Mosquito Bones: A Memoir

Priyanka Mattoo was born into a wooden house in the Himalayas as were most of her ancestors. In 1989 however mounting violence in the region forced Mattoo’s community to flee. The home into which her family poured their dreams was reduced to a pile of rubble.Mattoo never moved back to her beloved Kashmir―because it no longer existed. She and her family just kept packing and unpacking and moving on. In forty years Mattoo accumulated thirty-two different addresses and she chronicles her nomadic existence with wit wisdom and an inimitable eye for light within the darkest moments.