Description A politically driven graffiti artist.
Before becoming a published author, she worked at Sesame Workshop, where she contributed to productions of localized versions of S.
About the author Mathangi Subramanian, an award-winning writer, author, and educator, is a native of Minnesota and now lives with her husband and daughter in New Delhi, India.
Elegant, poetic, bursting with color, Mathangi Subramanian\'s novel is a moving and celebratory story of girls on the cusp of adulthood who find joy just in the basic act of living.
This is a story about geography, history, and strength, about love and friendship, about fighting for the people and places we love--even if no one else knows they exist.
Together they wage war on the bulldozers that would bury their homes, and, ultimately, on the city that does not care what happens to them.
A People\'s History of Heaven centers on five best friends, girls who go to school together, a diverse group who love and accept one another unconditionally, pulling one another through crises and providing emotional, physical, and financial support.
Living hand-to-mouth and constantly struggling against the city government who wants to bulldoze their homes and build yet more glass high-rises, these women, young and old, gladly support one another, sharing whatever they can.
In Heaven, you will come to know a community made up almost entirely of women, mothers and daughters who have been abandoned by their men when no male heir was produced.
Welcome to Heaven, a thirty-year-old slum hidden between brand-new high-rise apartment buildings and technology incubators in contemporary Bangalore, one of India\'s fastest-growing cities.
These are some of the young women who live in a Bangalore slum known as Heaven, young women whom readers will come to love in the moving, atmospheric, and deeply inspiring debut, A People\'s History of Heaven.
A queer daughter of a hijabi union leader.
A blind girl who loves to dance.
A transgender Christian convert.
Description A politically driven graffiti artist
