Boys Will Be Boys: A Daughter's Elegy
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (887 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0226304019 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 136 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Any or all of these topics might have been interesting, if only she had found a way to let the reader care about them. Her sister has "quite insequentially" put curlers in her hair. Goodyear's rather posturing prose style doesn't help. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. Goodyear does write about the family pets, favorite childhood foods, the step-sister she hated, her memories of Lahore, how she met her husband, her weariness with academic conferences, the wiles of assorted relatives and even her feelings about Pakistani Tampax. . In these 15 brief chapters, readers will discover little about this man nicknamed "Pip" (for "patriotic and preposterous") other than tidbits about his irascible nature. Her father, a founder of the Times of K
And perhaps Pip was not so preposterous after all: "On Judgment Day," he told his daughter, "I will say to God, 'Be merciful, for I have already been judged by my child.'". To the author, though, he was also "preposterous counting himself king of infinite space," a man who imposed outrageously on his children. Set around the women of her family, Meatless Days intertwines the violent history of Pakistan's independence with Suleri Goodyear's most intimate memories of her grandmother, mother, and sisters. As Suleri Goodyear chronicles, Pip demanded their loyalty yet banished them easily from his favor; contrary and absurdly unfair, he read their diaries, interfered in their relationships, and believed in a father's inalienable right to oppress his children.Suleri Goodyear invites the reader into an intimacy shaped equally by history and intensely personal detail, creating an elegant elegy for a man of force and contradiction. Suleri (known as Pip, for his "patriotic and preposterous" disposition).Taking its title from that jokingly chosen by her father for his unwritten autobiography, Boys Will Be Boys dips in and out of Suleri Goodyear's upbringing in Pakistan and her life in the United States, moving between public and private history and addressing questions of loss and cultural displacement through a resolutely comic lens. In this rich portrait, Pip emerges as a prodigious figure: an ardent agitator against British rule in the 1930s and 19
A disappointing read . Aamir Ansari This is the first of Dr Suleri's books that I have read and while I'm clearly in awe of the felicity with which she writes, there is a rather disagreeable tone to her observations that sours the whole reading experience. As much as I enjoy the humor which colors the whole book - a humor, which I dare say, is intrinsic to Lahore and its people - there is an attitude of undisguised prejudice that doesn't befit a writer of her stature, not to mention a Professor at Yale. The unconcealed derision