One weekend, my husband and I drove to Red Cloud, NE to see Willa Cather's childhood home. In 2009, I was teaching at Knox College in Galesburg, IL and working on final revisions for the memoir. In her own words, here is Neela Vaswani's Book Notes music playlist for her memoir, You Have Given Me a Country:įor my playlist, I picked songs that helped me access memories, created an atmosphere of in-betweenness, and generally influenced my writing-from theme to structure.ġ) Woody Guthrie, "This Land is Your Land" Lost verses included. The book follows the paths of Vaswani’s Irish-Catholic mother and Sindhi-Indian father on their journey towards each other and the biracial child they create." "The memoir blurs borders of genre and identity, exploring what it means to be bicultural in America. Neela Vaswani's memoir You Have Given Me a Country is a powerful, socially relevant book about the personal search for identity as a biracial person.īeautifully written, the book shares Vaswani's personal history as well as her parents' with a keen eye for detail and poetic elegance. In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.
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