Unworthy Creature: A Punjabi Daughter's Memoir of Honour, Shame and Love by Barbara Kay, Aruna Papp

Unworthy Creature: A Punjabi Daughter's Memoir of Honour, Shame and Love

Barbara Kay, Aruna Papp

214 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction challenging emotional informative medium-paced

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The memoir of a South Asian immigrant to Canada, whose formative years in India were steeped in a reigning patriarchal culture of honour and shame, in which the burden of the family's good standing rests on the sexual purity of girls and women. Th...

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