"From National Book Award nominee Mitali Perkins comes a sweet and innovative picture book about a first-generation immigrant child living in America. Shanti and her parents say goodbye to the monsoon rains in their Indian village. They move to a snowy town on the other side of the world. At first, it isn't easy for Shanti to be new. Back and forth she trudges between her family's Bengali traditions and her new country's culture. Again and again, in between. She feasts on biryani rice while kids in town eat hot dogs and PB&J sandwiches. She watches Bollywood movies at home and Hollywood movies with new friends. Is she still Indian? Is she becoming American? How should she define home? In this timely yet timeless picture book, critically-acclaimed author Mitali Perkins uses her own childhood to describe the experience of navigating multiple cultures and embracing the space—the hyphen—in between them." -- publisher
Themes
Genres: Fiction
Categories: Beautiful Life, Cross Group
Content: Bi/multilingual
Settings: Asia, India, Northern America, Southern Asia, United States of America
Ethnicity: Indian, Unspecified
Immigration: Immigrant/Migrant
Gender: Girl/Woman
Race/Culture: Asian/Pacific Islander/Asian American, Black/African/African American
Religion: Hindu
Cross Group Sub: Direct, Non-Central, Positive
Character Prominence: Dominant Main, Secondary