Bread, Cement, Cactus: A Memoir of Belonging and Dislocation AUTH-5158597 Binding / Paperback: 292 pages

Binding / Paperback: 292 pages

the diminutive but decisive acting director of the Museum of Asian Art

”—Tristan Gooley

Vision of the Future

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Bread, Cement, Cactus: A Memoir of Belonging and Dislocation AUTH-5158597 Binding / Paperback: 292 pagesIn this exploration of the meaning of home, Annie Zaidi reflects on the places in India from which she derives her sense of identity. She looks back on the now renamed city of her birth and the impossibility of belonging in the industrial township where she grew up. From her ancestral village, in a region notorious for its gangsters, to the mega city where she now lives, Zaidi provides a nuanced perspective on forging a sense of belonging as a