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About You Bring The Distant Near
Product Description Nominated for the National Book Award. Six starred reviews School Library Journal's Best Book of the Year. Publisher's Weekly's Best Book of the Year. Horn Book Fanfare List. ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults. New York City Public Library's Notable 50 Best Book for Teens. South Asia Book Award Winner. Mississippi's Magnolia Award Winner. This elegant young adult novel captures the immigrant experience for one Indian-American family with humor and heart. Told in alternating teen voices across three generations, You Bring the Distant Near explores sisterhood, first loves, friendship, and the inheritance of culture--for better or worse. From a grandmother worried that her children are losing their Indian identity to a daughter wrapped up in a forbidden biracial love affair to a granddaughter social-activist fighting to preserve Bengali tigers, award-winning author Mitali Perkins weaves together the threads of a family growing into an American identity. Here is a sweeping story of five women at once intimately relatable and yet entirely new. Review Nominated for the National Book Award Junior Library Guild Selection Walter Honor Award Hornbook Fanfare List Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year South Asia Book Award Winner Six starred reviews "Full of sisterhood, diversity, and complex, strong women, this book will speak to readers as they will undoubtedly find a kindred spirit in at least one of the Das women." ― Booklist starred review "... an unforgettable novel... Perkins's vibrantly written exploration of a family in transition is saturated with romance, humor, and meaningful reflections on patriotism, blended cultures, and carving one's own path." ― Publishers Weekly starred review "This stunning book about immigration and cultural assimilation is a must-purchase for teen and new adult collections." ― School Library Journal starred review "...an ambitious narrative that illuminates past and present, departure and reunion, women and family." ― The Horn Book starred review "...features inspiring South Asian girl and women protagonists grappling with love, faith, and culture, as well as the intersections among their personal, communal, and national histories...lushly drawn and emotionally resonant." ― Kirkus "The fully fleshed characters and complex family dynamics provide a vibrant background for exploration of multigenerational adaptation to a diverse America and of the familial and romantic love that nourishes their new roots." ― Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books "With wisdom and wit, You Bring the Distant Near illustrates the beauty in diversity. Perkins's striking imagery and deep, heartfelt insights illuminate the darkest corners of ignorance, providing a bright path to understanding and embracing differences in all their many splendors." ― Shelf Awareness starred review From the Author Dear reading friend, I'm so delighted you're about to read You Bring the Distant Near, a novel based on my own life, or my "hyphenated life," as I sometimes call it. How did I acquire this weird label? It's mostly due to my parents and the choices they made during migration.Dad--technically a refugee from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh)--became a harbor engineer, traveled far and wide, stood in the presence of Winston Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Queen Elizabeth, and settled his family in California when I was in the seventh grade. Apart from the peoples who originated in this continent, we are a nation of hyphenated folk. As time passes and generations come and go, our connections to the villages of our origins become more tenuous. We forget languages spoken by our ancestors, we lose the stabilizing power of traditions when it comes to rites of passage like birth, marriage, death. Soon, we may come to identify primarily as Americans, a nationality that has nothing to do with race or culture. Is it all loss?
