9 must-read nonfiction books like The Last Courtesan : Writing My Mother's Memoir by Manish Gaekwad

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"Isolation offered its own form of companionship"

-Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland

"The blood of too many, dissolving the very stain."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland

"In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland

"With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before"

-Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland

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"The year is 1947. It is the best of times, it is the worst of times."

-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Independence

Similar categories in Salman Rushdie's Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder book and Manish Gaekwad's The Last Courtesan : Writing My Mother's Memoir

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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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"the routine purchases of a woman on her own,"

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

"My mother, by now, clings to life like a yellowing piece of Scotch tape in a scrapbook."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

"wastes away like an old woman who was once a stunning beauty before shutting down completely."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

"There’s no point discussing it given that she’s blind to the small pleasures my solitude affords me"

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

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"These women relied on Shah Rukh when they found the real world and all its pandemics and practicalities inhospitable. Because only the deepest dissatisfaction with reality drives us to dwell in fanta…"

-Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence

"Fantasizing about an impossibly idealized kind of love they’d seen an actor perform on-screen. Yet, all their real-world efforts were extremely pragmatic, often sacrificing the love they fantasized a…"

-Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence

"Critics often say that DDLJ, with its emphasis on patriarchal permission for young love, discourages dissent. This argument narrows the space for dissent by legitimizing it only in its most blatant, …"

-Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence

Similar categories in Farah Bashir's Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir book and Manish Gaekwad's The Last Courtesan : Writing My Mother's Memoir

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"The house I would go back to would be bereft of her presence but filled with her memories. Our home, the little monument of memory."

-Farah Bashir, Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir

"I thought maybe if I looked ugly and less pleasant, the men would not look at me and I'd be safe. I wouldn't wash my face for days. I didn't want to look attractive in any way, at all, lest it invite…"

-Farah Bashir, Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir

"...the constant shifting of power had done its damage. I didn't know then, but it was the beginning of an apathy for my own self that would last for a long time. Our lives were controlled from elsewh…"

-Farah Bashir, Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir

"Why are people okay with not walking? Does Father not miss his daily walks to the shrine and his shop? What about Mother and her long walk to her parents' home? Does Bobeh not get bored now that she …"

-Farah Bashir, Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir

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Similar categories in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Zikora book and Manish Gaekwad's The Last Courtesan : Writing My Mother's Memoir

"You can’t nice your way to being loved."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora

"Some kindnesses you do not ever forget. You carry them to your grave, held warmly somewhere, brought up and savored from time to time."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora

"Respect: a starched deference, a string of ashen rituals. It was my mother who sat beside my father at weddings and ceremonies; it was her photo that appeared above the label of “wife"

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora

"If he was going to have a child, of course he should have a say, but how much of a say, since the body was mine, since in creating a child, Nature demanded so much of the woman and so little of the m…"

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora

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