Arich family saga about art and memorys power to inform the present make peace with the past and maybe even alter the future Celeste Ng New York Times bestselling author of Our Missing Hearts
Asha Thanki reinvents generational memory conjuring inheritance as a tapestry of love trauma and choices that echo through blood A profoundly tender and complex debut that I didnt want to put down Sequoia Nagamatsu bestselling author of How High We Go in the Dark
A heartrending family saga following three generations of women connected by a fantastic tapestry through which they inherit the experiences of those that lived before them sweeping readers from Partitionera India to modern day Brooklyn
Ayukta is finally sitting down with her wife Nadya to respond to a question shes long avoided Should they have a child The decision is complicated by a secret her family has kept for centuries one that Ayukta will be the first to share with someone outside their bloodline the women in her family inherit a mysterious tapestry through which each generation can experience the memories of those who came before her
Ayukta invites Nadya into this lineage carrying her through its past She relives her grandmother Amlas life Once a happy child in Karachi Amla migrates to Gujarat during Partition witnessing violence and loss that forever shape her approach to marriage and motherhood Amlas daughter Arni bears this weight in her own blood in 1974 when gender equity and urban class distinctions divide the community as a bold student movement takes hold As Ayukta unspools these generations of womenwhole decades of love loss heartbreak and revivalshe reveals the tapestrys second gift the ability for each of these women to dramatically reshape their own worlds Like all power both fantastic and societal this inheritance is more treacherous than it seems
What would it mean to impart an impossible burden To withhold these incredible gifts
Sweeping deeply felt and intergenerational A Thousand Times Before is a debut as poetic as it is propulsive as healing as it is heartbreaking as it examines what it means to carry our past with us and to pass it on Rooted in a tender love story and spun with a tremendous amount of care this book is a rare remarkable feat from an incredible new literary talent
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