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What We Carry : A Memoir

By Maya Shanbhag Lang

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About the book

Maya Shanbhag Lang grew up idolizing her mother, an accomplished physician who immigrated to the United States from India and completed her residency all while raising her children. Maya’s mother had always been a source of support-until Maya became a mother herself. Struggling to understand this abrupt change, Maya soon learns that her mother is living with Alzheimer’s.Unable to remember or keep track of the stories she once told her daughter, Maya’s mother divulges secrets about her past that force Maya to re-examine their relationship. Absorbing, moving, and raw, What We Carry is a memoir about mothers and daughters, lies and truths, receiving and giving care, and how we cannot grow up until we fully understand the people who raised us.

Pages: 288

Available in: Paperback

Language: English

Maya Shanbhag Lang

Maya Shanbhag Lang is the first-generation daughter of Indian immigrants and the author of The Sixteenth of June. She lives outside of New York City.

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In What We Carry, Maya Shanbhag Lang has created a gorgeous memoir about mothers, daughters, and the tenacity of the love that grows between what is said and what is left unspoken. - Mira Jacob, author of Good Talk

An exquisite exploration of love. - Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

A larger meditation on motherhood, daughterhood and feminism. - The New York Times

What We Carry is a love letter to everyone who has swum through turbulent water before reaching the shores of self hood. - Chloe Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists

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