Tag: Grandmother

Free Download In Exile: Rupture, Reunion, and My Grandmother’s Secret Life by Sadiya Ansari
English | August 13, 2024 | ISBN: 1487012373 | 232 pages | EPUB | 3.62 Mb
In a deeply personal investigation, award-winning journalist Sadiya Ansari takes us across three continents and back a century as she seeks the truth behind a family secret. Why did her grandmother Tahira abandon her seven children to follow a man from Karachi to a tiny village in Punjab? And though she eventually left him, Tahira remained estranged from her children for nearly two decades. Who was she in those years when she was no longer a wife or mother? For Sadiya herself, uninterested in marriage and children, the question begets another: What space is available to women who defy cultural expectations?

Free Download Gabriela Leite, "Daughter, Mother, Grandmother, and Whore: The Story of a Woman Who Decided to be a Puta "
English | ISBN: 147803050X | 2024 | 200 pages | PDF | 5 MB
In the early 1970s, while living at home with her conservative middle-class family and studying at the University of São Paulo, Gabriela Leite decided to become a sex worker. From her first client in a tiny room in downtown São Paulo to the launch of an exuberant clothing line designed for sex workers in Rio de Janeiro thirty years later, Daughter, Mother, Grandmother, and Whore tells the fascinating story of Leite’s bold and unique life in her own words. After helping to organize Brazil’s first protests by sex workers against police brutality, she moved to Rio de Janeiro, where she quickly became ensconced in the city’s storied red-light district. From there, Leite built a national network of politicized sex workers, worked for HIV/AIDS prevention, and participated in Brazil’s robust new civil society after its return to democracy in 1985 following a twenty-one-year military dictatorship. Insistent on advocating for the sex worker’s comprehensive human rights, Leite pioneered an irreverent grassroots Latin American feminism, which critiqued moral hypocrisies and Christian conservatism while affirming pleasure, joy, and agency.

Free Download A Grandmother Begins the Story: A Novel by Michelle Porter
English | November 7, 2023 | ISBN: 1643755188 | True EPUB | 336 pages | 4.2 MB
Award-winning author Michelle Porter makes her fiction debut with an enchanting and original story of the unrivaled desire for healing and the power of familial bonds across five generations of Métis women and the land and bison that surround them.

Free Download Faye Porter, "At My Grandmother’s Table: Heartwarming Stories and Cherished Recipes from the South"
English | 2013 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 1401604889 | EPUB | 20,3 mb
What would you give for an afternoon in your grandmother’s kitchen?