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Книга UNFIT Chetana Maya

UNFIT

A Modern Auto-Fiction Novel of Growth and Identity

Автор: Chetana Maya
Език: Английски език
Корици: С меки корици
Издател: Independently published
Наличност: Външен склад
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"Can I just call you MC? Like MC Hammer?"The stars were not consulted on that occasion. Nor, it appe...

Информация за книгата

Автор
Chetana Maya
Език
Английски език
Корици
Книга - С меки корици
Издадена
2026
страници
132
EAN
9798197781598
Enbook ID
52826687
Издател
Independently published
Теглоt
139
Размери
127 x 203 x 8

Пълно описание

"Can I just call you MC? Like MC Hammer?"
The stars were not consulted on that occasion. Nor, it appears, was Manju.
In Hindu tradition, a name is a celestial gift - a sound provided by the cosmos and filled with human hope. But for five-year-old Manju, arriving in Michigan from Delhi, her name quickly becomes a burden to every room she enters. A source of hesitation. A tilted head. A pause at the school register. An inconvenience to be naturalized.
So she learns the quiet art of triage. She rolls out placeholders. She deploys nicknames.
Manju. MC. Mona.
Three names. One person. None of them entirely chosen.
UNFIT is a story about the pause - the involuntary half-second that happens when the world encounters something it wasn't expecting, and decides whether to see it or replace it. It is about the cost of spending a lifetime making your own correctness smaller so that other people's comfort can stay larger.
And about what remains when you finally stop.