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Peacocks of Instagram
Deepa Rajagopalan
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Publisher:
House of Anansi Press Inc
House of Anansi Press Inc
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Watermark
Watermark
Publication Year:
2024
2024
ISBN-13:
9781487012410
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<p><strong>Finalist, 2024 Giller Prize</strong></p>
<p><strong>?Engrossing, witty yet devastating stories about diasporic Indians that deftly question what it means to be safe, to survive, and to call a place home.</strong></p>
<p>An underappreciated coffee shop server haunted by her past attracts thousands of followers on social media with her peacock jewellery. A hotel housekeeper up against a world of gender and class inequity quietly gets revenge on her chauvinist boss. And a foster child, orphaned in an accident directly attributable to climate change, brings down her foster father, an oil lobbyist, in spectacular fashion.</p>
<p>With an intense awareness of privilege and the lack of it, the fourteen stunning stories in <em>Peacocks of Instagram</em> explore what it means to be safe, to survive, and to call a place home.</p>
<p><strong>?Engrossing, witty yet devastating stories about diasporic Indians that deftly question what it means to be safe, to survive, and to call a place home.</strong></p>
<p>An underappreciated coffee shop server haunted by her past attracts thousands of followers on social media with her peacock jewellery. A hotel housekeeper up against a world of gender and class inequity quietly gets revenge on her chauvinist boss. And a foster child, orphaned in an accident directly attributable to climate change, brings down her foster father, an oil lobbyist, in spectacular fashion.</p>
<p>With an intense awareness of privilege and the lack of it, the fourteen stunning stories in <em>Peacocks of Instagram</em> explore what it means to be safe, to survive, and to call a place home.</p>
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