Brown Women Have Everything

<p>As a child growing up in New Delhi Sayantani Dasgupta wanted to go on adventures involving shipwrecks and treasure chests. Her parents wanted her to stay in school instead. She satisfied her curiosity by drawing maps inventing languages with friends and reading everything: English adventures Russian folktales Hindi comics Bengali ghost stories.<br/><br/><i>Brown Women Have Everything</i> embraces the same spirit of wonder as we follow Dasgupta now living and teaching in the United States to cathedrals in Italy pirate graveyards in North Carolina hair salons in Idaho her aunt’s kitchen in Bangladesh graffiti-lined streets of Colombia the hierarchical world of academia and her marriage to a handsome Sikh. As she moves through the world she examines issues of the body violence travel and belonging with a mix of humor joy pride and outrage. While the eighteen interwoven essays in this collection call out bigotry bias and othering they ultimately celebrate the ties that bind our disparate global lives together.</p>