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All of us in our own lives / Manjushree Thapa.
Ava Berriden, a Canadian lawyer, quits her corporate job in Toronto to move to Nepal. There she struggles to adapt to her new career in international aid and forge a connection with the country of her birth. Manjushree Thapa delves deeply into the lives of women and men in Nepal and into the world of international aid in this is a stunning, keenly observant novel about human interconnectedness, about privilege, and about the ethics of international aid.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781988298344 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 319 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Calgary : Freehand Books, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018.
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| General Note: | Originally published: India: Aleph, 2016. |
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| Genre: | Canadian fiction. |
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- 12 of 13 copies available at Sitka.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Fernie Heritage Library | FIC THA (Text) | 35136000541525 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Castlegar Public Library | FIC THA (Text) | 35146002105898 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Grand Forks | FIC THA (Text) | 35142002663077 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Invermere Public Library | FIC THA (Text) | IPL055541 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Lillooet Branch | AF THA (Text) | 35180000367846 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Quesnel Branch | THA (Text) | 33923006030575 | General Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Sechelt Public Library | BkClub F THAP (Text) | 33260100019794 | Book Club Sets | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Sechelt Public Library | BkClub F THAP (Text) | 33260100019810 | Book Club Sets | Available | - | |
| Sechelt Public Library | BkClub F THAP (Text) | 33260100019828 | Book Club Sets | Available | - | |
| Sechelt Public Library | BkClub F THAP (Text) | 33260100019836 | Book Club Sets | Available | - |
Manjushree Thapa was born in Kathmandu and raised in Nepal, Canada, and the United States. She has written several books of fiction and non-fiction. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, the London Review of Books, Newsweek, and the Globe and Mail. All of Us in Our Own Lives is the first novel she wrote after moving to Toronto.
